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Crowds attacked Dakota prisoners on their way to Mankato and Fort Snelling. Tales of bricks and rocks being used as weapons, boiling water poured on women and children, and loss of life are a result of the attacks of angry settlers on the Dakota.
This wood engraving was done in November, 1862.
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