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The Dakota War and the Mankato hangings
Mankato, Minnesota
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After treaty payments failed and traders told the starving Dakota to eat grass, war broke out along the Minnesota River. Thirty-eight men were hanged simultaneously at Mankato on Lincoln's order, still the largest mass execution in American history, after he commuted 265 other sentences.
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