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Hypolite Auge

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Hypolite Auge

Birth
Death
26 Dec 1862
Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA
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Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA Add to Map
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Wahpeton Dakota warrior of mixed descent who fought in the US-Dakota War of 1862. He was the son of Louis Auge and a full-blood Wahpeton Dakota woman. He may have been a clerk in one of the stores at the Lower Agency. Author C. M. Oehler states in his book that Hypolite was a cousin of James Auge, an interpreter with the 6th Minnesota Infantry.

Sources:

Oehler, C. M. The Great Sioux Uprising: New York, NY: Oxford, 1959, p. 205.

Whiting and Ruggles Report, Case No. 175. Hypolite Ange, a half-breed. -- Confesses that he was one of the party that murdered a white man, and that he fired at him. -- (See cases Nos. 115 and 138.)
Wahpeton Dakota warrior of mixed descent who fought in the US-Dakota War of 1862. He was the son of Louis Auge and a full-blood Wahpeton Dakota woman. He may have been a clerk in one of the stores at the Lower Agency. Author C. M. Oehler states in his book that Hypolite was a cousin of James Auge, an interpreter with the 6th Minnesota Infantry.

Sources:

Oehler, C. M. The Great Sioux Uprising: New York, NY: Oxford, 1959, p. 205.

Whiting and Ruggles Report, Case No. 175. Hypolite Ange, a half-breed. -- Confesses that he was one of the party that murdered a white man, and that he fired at him. -- (See cases Nos. 115 and 138.)

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