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.
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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.
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