Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians CDVs

Group of three carte de visites of prints of the "Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians", one with R.W. Beebe of Mankato, Minnesota backmark with creasing to albumen, and the other with Martin's Art Gallery of St. Paul backmark. Irregular trim…plus; one landscape photograph "Fort Snelling and the Valley of the Minnesota" with Whitney's Gallery, Saint Paul backmark. Each CDV is in very good condition. All housed in a tri-fold gold colored frame. Following the Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota, U.S. military authorities arrested hundreds of Dakota (Sioux) men and conducted military trials for those accused of participating in attacks against settlers and soldiers. The tribunals convicted 303 Dakota men and sentenced them to death. President Abraham Lincoln reviewed the trial records and approved the execution of 39 men, later granting a reprieve to one, leaving 38 to be executed. On December 26, 1862, the 38 Dakota prisoners were hanged simultaneously on a specially constructed scaffold in Mankato before a large crowd. The execution remains the largest mass execution in United States history. Following the war, many Dakota people were removed from Minnesota and relocated to reservations outside the state.