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Upon creation, Dakota Territory included much of present-day Montana and Wyoming as well as all of present-day North Dakota and South Dakota and a small portion of present-day Nebraska. [5] President Lincoln appointed Dakota Territory's first governor, William Jayne , who was Lincoln's old friend and neighbor from Springfield, Illinois.
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
Department of Dakota (1866–1911) Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and parts of Idaho, South Dakota and the Yellowstone portion of Wyoming. Department of the Missouri (1865–1891) Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Indian Territory, and Territory of Oklahoma.
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American Civil War – civil war in the United States of America that lasted from 1861 to 1865. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America , also known as "the Confederacy."
With the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, the troops at Fort Laramie were withdrawn to fight the Confederate States Army in the east. To take their place, a series of volunteer regiments soon arrived at Fort Laramie, including the 11th Ohio Cavalry, serving until they were mustered out in 1866.
The War for the Union: The Improvised War 1861–1862 (Scribner, 1959). Phillips, Christopher. The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border (Oxford University Press, 2016). Robinson, Michael D. A Union Indivisible: Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South (University of North Carolina ...
The people, places, and events associated with the Dakota Territory, particularly present day South Dakota, during the American Civil War. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: