Battle of the Badlands

Battle of Badlands
	Part of the Sioux Wars and the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War
Date	7–9 August 1864
Location	Badlands, Dakota Territory; (near present-day Medora, North Dakota)
Result	United States victory
Belligerents
United States of America	Hunkpapa; Sans Arc; Miniconjou; Yanktonai
Commanders and leaders
Alfred Sully	Sitting Bull
Strength
2,200	~ 1,000
Casualties and losses
~13 dead and wounded	~U.S. estimate 100 dead and wounded (but probably only a few)

The Battle of the Badlands was fought in Dakota Territory, in what is now western North Dakota, between the United States army led by General Alfred Sully and the Lakota, Yanktonai, and the Dakota Indian tribes. The battle was fought August 7–9, 1864 between what are now Medora and Sentinel Butte, North Dakota. It was an extension of the conflict begun in the Dakota War of 1862. Sully successfully marched through the badlands encountering only moderate resistance from the Sioux.

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