Sibley tent

Around 80 men were kept in two Sibley tents unfed overnight.

The men seemingly detained in the Sibley tents broke out and made their way to the municipal hall.

The United Kingdom also adopted the design of the Sibley tent.

Sibley tent (US)

He also invented the "Sibley stove" (also known as the Sibley tent stove), to heat the tent.

The Sibley tent was invented by the American military officer Henry Hopkins Sibley and patented in 1856.

In the 1850s, he invented the "Sibley tent", which was widely used by the Union Army during the American Civil War and for a short while afterward.

On March 12, the New Orleans Picayune reported that "the capital of Kentucky [is] now being located in a Sibley tent."

The Bright Side, 1865, is an oil painting by Winslow Homer of three African American Union Army teamsters sitting on the sunny side of a Sibley tent.

The bell tent is characteristically different to the sibley tent by its walls, raised larger entrance and guy ropes, without the a telescopic tripod or smoke hole, which were characteristics of the tipi.

Canby and Sibley certainly had crossed paths previously: Canby served on a court-martial panel that exonerated Sibley in 1858, and he subsequently endorsed Sibley's invention, the Sibley tent, which would be widely used during the Civil War.

A version of the bell tent, the sibley tent was invented by Henry Hopkins Sibley, who had studied the Native American tipi during the expeditions he carried out in the American Old West, he patented his tent design in 1858.