Blood Summer 1862

<p style='margin:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-family:Bierstadtsans-serif;'>1862 was the second year of the Civil War and a year when hundreds of European immigrants and settlers from the eastern United States were building cabins and clearing farmland in Minnesota.</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><br></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-family:Bierstadtsans-serif;'>It was also the year when the Dakota Sioux were starving on their reservation because the annuity from the federal government was late and the traders refused to sell them food on credit. In August the smoldering firestorm erupted and the Dakota Sioux went on a rampage that shook the state and the nation.</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><br></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-family:Bierstadtsans-serif;'>This is the story of a newly</span><span style='font-family:Bierstadtsans-serif;'>-</span><span style='font-family:Bierstadtsans-serif;'>arrived Swedish family who suffered through it of a devout Dakota Sioux man who helped them and many others survive and of the President of the United States Abraham Lincoln who sought justice for 303 condemned Dakota Sioux prisoners in the midst of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. </span></p>