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Originally Posted by blueash
The weblink did not ignore the largest mass hanging in US History. This was a military execution of 38 Sioux Indians who were tried without any legal representation by a military court en masse without even adhering to the rules of US military courts. They just wanted to hang people for actions that occurred in a war between the US government and the Sioux. Lincoln did commute the death sentences passed on the rest of the over 303 which were sentenced to death by this military court.
Any modern reading of that conflict is likely to support the position that the Sioux were justified as the US was trampling their rights and ignoring treaties that already had "given" land to the white people.
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My professor for Legal History at the U of MN Law School was writing a law review article (1990) about that which she finished.
Did Abraham Lincoln Order the Execution of 38 Dakota Fighters?