Fort Ridgely was a frontier United States Army outpost from 1851 to 1867, built 1853–1854 in Minnesota Territory. The Sioux called it Esa Tonka. It was...
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Fort Ridgely was an early battle in the Dakota War of 1862. As the closest U.S. military post to the Lower Sioux Agency, the lightly fortified Fort Ridgely...
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stationed at Fort Ridgely) reinforced New Ulm. Residents continued to build barricades around the town. The Dakota attacked Fort Ridgely on August 20...
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Fort Ridgely State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, on the Minnesota River south of Fairfax. It preserves Fort Ridgely, site of the Battle of Fort...
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Ridgely Township is a township in Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 126 at the 2000 census. Ridgely Township was organized...
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Fort Ridgely Creek is a stream in Nicollet County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is a tributary of the Minnesota River. Fort Ridgely Creek flows...
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Big Eagle (section New Ulm and Fort Ridgely)
Ulm nor the first attack on Fort Ridgely... I was in the second fight at New Ulm and in the second attack on Fort Ridgely. At New Ulm I had but a few...
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sent south to build Fort Dodge and would garrison the fort until the army closed it and sent E Co. to help construct Fort Ridgely. In 1850 Alexander Ramsey...
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5th Minnesota Infantry Regiment (section Fort Ridgely)
serving in its home state and the south, particularly at the Battles of Fort Ridgely, Corinth and Nashville. On October 23, 1861, Assistant Secretary of War...
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Sheehan, who had left Fort Ridgely the day before with 50 men of Company C, 5th Minnesota Infantry Regiment, en route to Fort Ripley. Captain Marsh's...
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