Category: Fool Soldiers Band Monument, Mobridge, South Dakota

Categories: Walworth County, South Dakota | Mobridge, South Dakota | United States of America, Monuments and Memorials

Inscription on monument:

"Shetek Captives Rescued Here
November 1862
By Fool Soldiers Band"

The Fool Soldiers Band Monument was erected in memory of a group of Teton Lakota men who rescued two women and seven children from captivity by hostile Dakota during the US-Dakota War of 1862. During the war, a band of hostile Dakota attacked the settlement at Lake Shetek, Minn., killing 14 people and taking captive Laura Duley and her children Jefferson, Emma, and Francis; and Julia Wright and four other children.

NOTE: No remains are buried at this site; this monument was erected to remember and honor the men of the Fool Soldiers Band

Address: 1820 West Grand Crossing, Mobridge, Walworth County, South Dakota, 57601

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