Wood Lake Battlefield in Echo, Minn.
Jeff Griffith
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.
Wood Lake Battlefield: What's Nearby
Echo, MN
Preservation
The American Battlefield Trust and our members have saved more than 240 acres at Wood Lake Battlefield.
Related Battles
Battle Facts
Yellow Medicine County, MN | September 23, 1862
Result: Union Victory
Estimated Casualties
41
U.S.
41
41
Sioux
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