Following their uprising, the Santee Sioux were pursued and captured by
Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley's men.  Approximately two thousand Sioux
were subsequently forced from their reservations in Mankato, Minnesota,
into camps in the Dakota Territory.  Sibley appointed a military court to
try all Santees suspected of participating in the revolt, though the
Indians were without legal counsel.  At first, 303 prisoners were
sentenced to death, but President Lincoln refused to authorize so many
executions and requested a thorough review of the trial records.  In the
end, thirty-eight Santees were hanged in masses in Mankato on December 26,
1863.