PDF A Fire in His Soul: Irving M. Bumin; 1901-1980; The Man and His Impact on American Orthodox Jewry by Amos Bunim in History

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After two years in the Southern theater of the Civil War; Brackett#8217s Battalion became part of the Northwestern Indian Expedition of 1864 and rode into Dakota Territory to seek out and engage the Indians in response to the attacks on settlers in Minnesota. On July 28; 1864; during a decisive battle against a large Dakota contingent at Killdeer Mountain; Brackett#8217s men conducted a remarkable three-mile-long saber charge that resulted in vicious hand-to-hand combat and eventually turned the tide of the battle.Told through the extant journals; diaries; and letters of the troopers themselves;Brackett#8217s Battalion brings to light a long neglected aspect of Minnesota's role in the Civil War and reveals a side of the conflict rarely portrayed in the war's literature.