NO it wasn’t propaganda. Iowa fought on 3 fronts. The Indian wars on the west and north, the Missouri outlaws and sent men to the civil war. on the south.
“NO it wasn’t propaganda. Iowa fought on 3 fronts. The Indian wars on the west and north, the Missouri outlaws and sent men to the civil war. on the south.”
The genesis of the 1862 Sious Uprising was years before the Civil War. It hit its explosive spark in 1862 because the annuities promised to the Sioux were reduced because of the costs associated with the Civil War.
Iowa had almost no involvement in the 1862 Sioux Uprising (certainly nothing like the Spirit Lake Massacre of 1857). While the uprising occurred in SW Minnesota, it was pretty much confined to Minnesota. The closest major massacre to Iowa in 1862 was at Lake Shetek in SW Minnesota.