The town is adjacent to Wood Lake which attracts summer visitors.

Sibley's guide thought the lake was Wood Lake, which was about three and a half miles to the west, so the battle is actually misnamed.

They fought at the Battle of Wood Lake in September of that year.

After the arrival of a larger army force, the final large-scale fighting took place at the Battle of Wood Lake on September 23, 1862.

"Our family isn't that well-to-do," his 48-year-old mother, Barbara Anderson, said in a telephone interview from Wood Lake.

Virtually all of Wood Lake shut down for the funeral there on Tuesday, held in the gymnasium where the young man had played high school basketball.

Corporal Bentzlin moved to Wood Lake after his mother remarried.

In addition to Wood Lake, the park contains mixed lowland forest, cattail marsh and restored prairie habitats.

Most of the Wood Lakes's water drained during the 1950s.

Godfrey was captured after the Battle of Wood Lake on September 23, 1862, and held to face trial.