Edward was only 3 years old when he was shot to death His brother, Heinrich killed with a tomahawk was 7 years old.
The Left is persistent. It will never stop pushing its revisionist history. One big problem with conservatives is that they often lack the stamina to continually push back.
And so we have this again…
Sioux City’s Dakota Nation descendants gather to honor victims of the 1862 mass hanging – KTIV
Sioux City residents and descendants of the Dakota Nation gathered Friday for a potlatch lunch at the Sioux City Museum to commemorate the anniversary of the 1862 Mankato mass execution.
On Dec. 26, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged in Mankato at the order of Former President Abraham Lincoln, according to one of the group organizers, Karen Mackey.
It was one of the many trials after the end of the Dakota War of 1862, a brief conflict between the Dakota people of Minnesota and settlers.
During the BLM era, this was used as a pretext for tearing down Abraham Lincoln’s statues.
The sympathetic media narratives provide no details of why Lincoln ordered their hanging. So here’s the actual history.
The names of small children don’t often appear on monuments, but Edward Baumler’s name is there among those of many other children who were murdered in the massacre at Milford.
Edward was only 3 years old when he was shot to death by Dakota raiders. His brother, Heinrich, who died alongside him, killed with a tomahawk, was 7 years old.
Their baby sister was murdered with an arrow.
The Baumler children were among a dozen other children, and twice as many women, killed by the tribal child murderers and rapists who assaulted the immigrant German township of Milford.
The massacre at Milford was not unique. Entire communities were wiped out by bands of Indians pretending they had come asking for water. Women and girls as young as twelve years old were raped, mutilated, and murdered. Little boys were beaten to death. Survivors hid in piles of corpses, awaiting death while surrounded by the dead bodies of their loved ones.
Minnesota settlements in the 1860s were a haven for German, Norwegian, and other immigrants who had fled political oppression and limited opportunities to come to America. They had little to do with the causes of the conflict between the Dakota and the United States.
The Dakota massacres were so easily accomplished because the German and Norwegian settlers, unlike the English settlers of another era, were unarmed and weren’t ready to fight. That’s why the “warriors” initially avoided attacking the local fort and instead went after them.
When Little Crow’s War ended, trials were held and 303 fighters were sentenced to be hanged.
President Lincoln was uncomfortable with the speedy trials and the large number of tribal fighters who would have been executed. Despite heavy political pressure from survivors and Minesottans, he personally decided to review the trial records for every single case.
Lincoln had been a talented lawyer, but he was in the middle of the Civil War, and there were 303 cases. The Union depended on the support of Minnesota, and of the German immigrant community, who played a major role in the fighting, to pursue and win the war with the South.
Nevertheless, Lincoln personally reviewed the trial records for each case, and commuted the sentences of 88% of the convicted tribal fighters, agreeing to hang only 39 of them.
The men whose hanging Lincoln approved were both the worst of the lot and those whose guilt he believed absolutely proven. He discarded those who had participated in the general fighting and selected those who had attacked small farms and committed atrocities against individuals, especially women and children. In this, he relied on the testimony of survivors and other fighters because the perpetrators had boasted of the crimes committed against women and children.
As he told the Senate, he had first ordered “the execution of such as had been proved guilty of violating females” and then those “proven to have participated in massacres”.
Even though Lincoln had been as liberal as he could possibly be and more, the hangings still weighed on him. He offered a last minute pardon to another of the condemned men, issued a special warning not to hang yet another man, and warned that the other prisoners should not be subjected to “unlawful violence”. And in the end, only 38 of the convicted were hanged.
Lincoln was as liberals about this as he absolutely could be. His party, the Republicans, paid a heavy political price for it in Minnesota, and now the DFLers who run the state commemorate the child killers and rapists as if they were innocent victims.
