| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1862/08/18 | While Joseph Brown is in New York City soliciting financial backing for his a steam powered wagon he invented, two of his children visit the Upper Agency and are warned of danger. | Upper Sioux Agency State Park, MN, Minnesota |
| 1862/08/19 | In the morning, 27 people including Susan Brown, her 12 children, hired help and neighbors, flee on wagons toward Fort Ridgely. | Joseph R Brown House Ruins, Sacred Heart, MN |
| 1862/08/19 | Six miles from the Brown House, the Brown group is stopped by a Dakota war party. Susan Brown stands on a wagon and defends the group by threatening the Indians with the vengeance of her Sisseton Sioux relatives. The Dakota allow the men to escape. | |
| 1862/08/19 | A Dakota war party takes Susan Brown and the other women and children in her group to Little Crow's camp where they are held captive. Marker is north of Spicer on 140th Ave NE, 0.5 mile west of State Hwy 23. | Kandiyohi County, |
| 1862/08/19 | The Joseph Brown House is as gutted by fire and nearly all furnishings are destroyed or stolen. Over the next 75 years the stone comprising much of the walls and foundations of the house, stable and root cellar will be removed by local farmers. | Joseph R Brown House Ruins, Sacred Heart, MN |
| 1862/09/22 | The 3rd Minnesota Infantry Regiment make camp along near a creek that drains out of Lone Tree Lake, and the 6th Minnesota bivouac next to another small lake. The 7th Minnesota camps at the right rear behind the creek's ravine. | Wood Lake Battlefield Historic District, Granite Falls, MN |
| 1862/09/23 | Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley leads United States soldiers in battle with Dakota braves led by Chief Little Crow near Lone Tree Lake. The fighting will last two hours. | Wood Lake Battlefield Historic District, Granite Falls, MN |
| 1862/09/26 | Col Henry H Sibley arrives on a bluff overlooking the Minnesota River Valley and demands that all the captives be delivered instantly. The Dakota immediately release 91 white settlers and about 150 mixed-blood captives. | Camp Release State Monument, Montevideo |
| 1862/09/26 | War prisoners, Susan Brown, the other women and children group, are freed at "Camp Release" west of Montevideo. | Camp Release State Monument, Montevideo |
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