Person

Abraham Lincoln

Sixteenth President of the United States.

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Hanging of 38 Dakota men at Mankato Dec 1862 cut a list of 303 condemned men to 39 names Scholarship & press 3

Hanging of 38 Dakota men at Mankato cut the list of condemned men from 303 to 39 Scholarship & press 3

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Transcript for President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3 October 1863, U.S. National Archives (via the Obama White House archive), 3 Oct 1863. Primary record
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United Stated States to be affixed.
Emancipation in Washington, D.C., National Park Service. Primary record
Congress passed the act in a landslide vote, and President Lincoln signed it on April 16, 1862.
The Trials & Hanging, U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, Minnesota Historical Society. Scholarship & press
When only two men were found guilty of rape, Lincoln expanded the criteria to include those who had participated in “massacres” of civilians rather than just “battles.” He then made his final decision, and forwarded a list of 39 names to Sibley.
Anxious to not act with so much clemency as to encourage another outbreak on one hand, nor with so much severity as to be real cruelty on the other
The trials of the Dakota were conducted unfairly in a variety of ways. The evidence was sparse, the tribunal was biased, the defendants were unrepresented in unfamiliar proceedings conducted in a foreign language, and authority for convening the tribunal was lacking.
neither the Military Commission nor the reviewing authorities recognized that they were dealing with the aftermath of a war fought with a sovereign nation

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