In August 1862, President Abraham Lincoln’s Army of the Potomac was being fought to a standstill by Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia when the Dakota Sioux launched a punitive war against the lightly defended Minnesota settlers, leaving hundreds dead in their rebellion. Lincoln suddenly found the Union vulnerable East and West, and the embattled commander-in-chief was in a struggle to save the nation. Gustav Niebuhr argues brilliantly in Lincoln’s Bishop: A President, a Pr
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