Bicentennial Story #8-Sully at Fort Rice

Bicentennial Story #8-Sully at Fort Rice

Account of General Alfred Sully coming to North Dakota to fight Sioux Indians and build forts in 1864.

5/12/1975

12/30/1975

Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort

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audio reel, analog, 1/4 inch polyester tape

English

BS-008

Dakota Territory

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

In 1864, in the midst of the War Between the States, General Alfred Sully led a large Army to Dakota to fight the Sioux Indians, build forts, and protect immigrant wagons trekking to the gold fields in Montana. To supply his 35 hundred soldiers he sent a fleet of steamers up the Missouri. To the mouth of the Yellowstone alone, Sully shipped 50 tons of commissary supplies including a whole boat of corn for the horses and mules, and 17 barrels of whiskey for those who had no horse sense. In the middle of July the steamers ferried the army's 500 wagons across the Missouri 25 miles south of present Mandan, and shortly the soldiers from Wisconsin were building Fort Rice, the jumping-off place for an attack on the Sioux to the West.

This is Bicentennial Story No. 8, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller, for the Stark County Historical Society.

Pfaller, Sully Expedition 6-8

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