August 8, 1864---Civil War? What Civil War?

AUGUST 8, 1864: 

The Battle of The Badlands. Union troops battle Lakota (Sioux) in the Nebraska Territory.  About a score of Euro-Americans are killed. The Lakota lose 100 + braves. 

 

While Union troops are fighting the Lakota in the Nebraska Territory, Confederate troops engage a raiding party of thirty-five Comanches in Eastland County, Texas. The Indians manage to escape, although the Euro-Americans seize their horses and food stocks.