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This is a sketch of a cannon stationed on a battlefield.

Wood Lake Battlefield

The Wood Lake Battlefield Preservation Association preserves and interprets the Wood Lake Battle sites of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. One monument site is on County Road 18, .7 miles west of Highway 67. A second battlefield site is .7 mile to the north on 600th Street. Interpretive signs are at each location.

Civil War | Historic Site

Birch Coulee Battlefield State Historic Site

Morton, MN

The American Battlefield Trust and our members have saved more than 240 acres at Wood Lake Battlefield.

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Battle Facts

Yellow Medicine County, MN | September 23, 1862

Result: Union Victory

Estimated Casualties

Union
41

Confed.
0

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