6h 50min, dec 26, 1862 y - Trials and execution of Dakota at Mankato
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303 men are tried in a military court and where convicted of raping and murdering civilians. Abraham Lincoln commutes the sentences of 264 prisoners. 38 men are then hanged at mankato. It was the largest mass execution in U.S. history
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