Battle of Killdeer Mountain

Battle of Killdeer Mountain
	Part of Sioux Wars, American Civil War
	; Killdeer Mountain battlefield
Date	July 28–29, 1864
Location	Dakota Territory; Present-day Dunn County, North Dakota
Result	United States victory
Belligerents
United States of America	Lakota, Yanktonai, Santee Dakota
Commanders and leaders
Alfred Sully	Gall; Sitting Bull; Inkpaduta
Strength
2,200	1,600 or more
Casualties and losses
5 dead, 10 wounded.	31 dead possibly more

The Battle of Killdeer Mountain (also known as the Battle of Tahkahokuty Mountain) took place during Brig. Gen. Alfred Sully's expedition against the Sioux in Dakota Territory July 28–29, 1864. The location of the battleground is in modern Dunn County, North Dakota. With a total of more than 4,000 soldiers involved in the total operation, and more than 2,000 in the battle, Sully's expedition was the largest ever carried out by the U.S. army against Native Americans.^[3]

^ "Battle Summary: Killdeer Mountain, ND". U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service. Archived from the original on 22 June 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
^ Thrapp, p. 1388, lists the US losses as "2 killed, some wounded", while Carley, pp. 91-92, puts the numbers at 5 killed and 10 wounded.
^ Barsness, John and Dickinson, William. "The Sully Campaign 1864" Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Vol. 16, No.3 (Summer, 1966), p. 24, 25

[CWSAC-1] "Battle Summary: Killdeer Mountain, ND". U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service. Archived from the original on 22 June 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012.

[2] Thrapp, p. 1388, lists the US losses as "2 killed, some wounded", while Carley, pp. 91-92, puts the numbers at 5 killed and 10 wounded.

[3] Barsness, John and Dickinson, William. "The Sully Campaign 1864" Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Vol. 16, No.3 (Summer, 1966), p. 24, 25

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