Editing Fort Snelling (section)

===Civil War===
[[File:Wokiksuye K'a Woyuonihan Memorial.jpg|thumb|upright|The Wokiksuye K'a Woyuonihan memorial site at Fort Snelling, with a [[Catlinite|pipestone]] encased in the center, surrounded by bundles of the four sacred medicines: sage, cedar, [[tobacco]], and [[Hierochloe odorata|sweetgrass]].]]

When the [[American Civil War]] broke out the Government commandeered the fort for the War Department as an induction station. At the time Steele was in arrears, having made only one payment.<ref name="sale" /> When [[Alexander Ramsey|Governor Ramsey]] offered [[President Lincoln]] 1000 troops to fight the [[Confederate States of America|South]] the volunteers he got were organized at Fort Snelling into a regiment, the [[1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment|1st Minnesota]]. More than 24,000 recruits were trained there.<ref name="CivilWar">{{cite web|url=http://www.historicfortsnelling.org/history/military-history/civil-war|title=The Civil War|work=Historic Fort Snelling|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|access-date=July 6, 2013|archive-date=February 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130204062938/http://www.historicfortsnelling.org/history/military-history/civil-war|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Minnesota units mustered in at Fort Snelling:
* 1st Minnesota April 1861 (lineage today: [[135th Infantry Regiment (United States)|2nd Battalion 135th Infantry]])
* [[2nd Minnesota Infantry Regiment|2nd Minnesota]] June–July 1861 (lineage today: [[136th Infantry Regiment (United States)|136th Infantry Regiment]])
* [[3rd Minnesota Regiment|3rd Minnesota]] Oct–Nov 1861
* [[4th Minnesota Infantry Regiment|4th Minnesota]] Oct–Nov 1861
* [[5th Minnesota Infantry Regiment|5th Minnesota]] Mar–Apr 1862
* [[6th Minnesota Infantry Regiment|6th Minnesota]] Sep–Nov 1862
* [[7th Minnesota Infantry Regiment|7th Minnesota]] Aug–Oct 1862
* [[8th Minnesota Infantry Regiment|8th Minnesota]] Jun–Sep 1862
* [[9th Minnesota Infantry Regiment|9th Minnesota]] Aug–Oct 1862
* [[10th Minnesota Infantry Regiment|10th Minnesota]] Aug–Nov 1862
* [[11th Minnesota Infantry Regiment|11th Minnesota]] Aug–Sep 1864
* [[1st Minnesota Infantry Battalion]] Aug–Sep 1864
* [[1st Minnesota Sharpshooters Company]] Apr 1864
* [[2nd Minnesota Sharpshooters Company]] Jan 1862
* [[1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment|1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery]] Nov 1864 (today 151st Field Artillery)
* [[1st Minnesota Light Artillery Battery]] Nov 1861
* [[2nd Minnesota Light Artillery Battery]] Mar 1862
* [[3rd Minnesota Light Artillery Battery]] Feb 1863
* [[1st Minnesota Cavalry Regiment|1st Minnesota Cavalry]] Oct–Dec 1862
* [[2nd Minnesota Cavalry Regiment]] Dec 1863
* [[Brackett's Minnesota Cavalry Battalion|1st Minnesota Light Cavalry(Bracket's Battalion)]] Sep–Nov 1861
* [[Hatch's Minnesota Cavalry Battalion|Minnesota Independent Cavalry Battalion (Hatch's Battalion)]] Jul 1863
* During the civil war, slightly over 100 African Americans approached Fort Snelling to volunteer for military service.<ref name="CivilWar" /> Minnesota did not have an African American population large enough to field a "[[colored]]" unit as US Infantry units were segregated. Those volunteers were put on riverboats to Iowa and Missouri, states that had "colored" units: [[1st Iowa Infantry Regiment (African Descent)|1st Iowa Infantry Colored]], [[18th United States Colored Infantry Regiment]], and the [[4th Missouri Colored Infantry Regiment|68th United States Colored Infantry]].<ref name="CivilWar" /> The navy had a few volunteers also.<ref>Minnesota was Tainted by Slavery, Marshall H. Tanick, MINNPOST online, POB 18438, Minneapolis, Mn, Feb 2019, minnpost.com [https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2019/02/minnesota-was-tainted-by-slavery-too/]</ref>
**In 1830 Fort Snelling was the birthplace of [[John Taylor Wood]]. He served on the [[CSS Virginia|''Merrimack'']] at the [[Battle of Hampton Roads]] during the civil war.<ref name="TWinstead">[[#Winstead|Winstead, 2009]]</ref>

In 1860 and 1863 the [[Minnesota State Fair]] was held at the fort.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mnstatefair.org/virtual-fair/history-timeline/ |title=Minnesota State Fair timeline, Minnesota State Fair webpage |access-date=2020-10-01 |archive-date=2020-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926084105/https://www.mnstatefair.org/virtual-fair/history-timeline/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

*In 1865 the Minnesota Central Railroad completed rail line from Northfield to Mendota. There the line crossed the river to Fort Snelling, continuing on to Minneapolis.<ref>[https://www.mnhs.org/minnehahadepot/learn Minnehaha Depot, Minnehaha Depot]</ref><ref>Railroads and the Minneapolis Milling District, Minnesota History, Summer 2009, Don L. Hofsommer, Minnesota Historical Society website [http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/61/v61i06p248-259.pdf]</ref>
*In June 1865 the 10th US Infantry Hq, D, and F Companies returned to the 10th's pre-war post at Fort Snelling.<ref name="USACMH" /> B and H Companies went to Fort Ridgely while A and I Companies went to Fort Ripley.

With the war over Steele submitted a claim of $162,000 for the forts use during the war. He hoped to gain the money's he still owed from the 1857 purchase. In 1873 an agreement was reached giving the Army the fort. In exchange, his debt was cleared and Steele was given title to 6,395 acres of the original Fort Snelling Reservation.<ref name="sale">Sale of Fort Snelling Reservation. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting papers relative to the sale of the Fort Snelling Reservation, 12-10-1868, University of Oklahoma College of Law
University of Oklahoma College of Law Digital Commons, American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817–1899, p. 107, University of Oklahoma, 300 Timberdell Road, Norman, OK [https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2755&context=indianserialset]</ref>