This is the location of the first attack by the Dakota on government troops. Capt. John Marsh, commander at Fort Ridgely, led his troops to this ferry site, where they were planning to cross the river to the Lower Sioux Agency to stop the uprising. They were ambushed there by the Dakota. Marsh and more than half his men were killed.
Photographer: Edward Augustus Bromley, 1897. Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society. Cannot be downloaded or copied for commercial use.
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