Battle of the Badlands

Battle of the Badlands
Part of the Sioux Wars and the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War
Date7–9 August 1864
Location
Badlands, Dakota Territory
(near present-day Medora, North Dakota)
Result United States victory
Belligerents
United States of America Hunkpapa
Sans Arc
Miniconjou
Yanktonai
Commanders and leaders
Alfred Sully Sitting Bull
Strength
2,200 ~ 1,000
Casualties and losses
~13 dead and wounded ~U.S. estimate 100 dead and wounded (but probably only a few)

The Battle of the Badlands was fought in Dakota Territory, in what is now western North Dakota, between the United States army led by General Alfred Sully and the Lakota, Yanktonai, and the Dakota Indian tribes.[1][2] The battle was fought August 7–9, 1864 between what are now Medora and Sentinel Butte, North Dakota. It was an extension of the conflict begun in the Dakota War of 1862. Sully successfully marched through the badlands encountering only moderate resistance from the Sioux.

General Alfred Sully
  1. ^ "The US Army and the Sioux - Part 2: Battle of the Badlands". National Park Service. Retrieved 2012-04-07.
  2. ^ Micheal D. Clodfelter (28 February 2006). The Dakota War: The United States Army Versus the Sioux, 1862-1865. McFarland. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-7864-2726-0. Retrieved 7 April 2012.