The Battle of Sugar Point occurs on Leech Lake. Soldiers from the Third Infantry had accompanied US Marshal R. T. O'Connor to arrest Bagone-giizhig of the Bear Island Pillager Ojibwe. Bagone-giizhig had protested practices of lumber companies on the reservation, and he was in turn accused of illegal liquor sales. When O'Connor came to arrest him, Bagone-giizhig was rescued by a group of Ojibwe. O'Connor then requested assistance from General John M. Bacon at Fort Snelling, who traveled with eighty soldiers on a steamer to Sugar Point on Leech Lake, where Bagone-giizhig and his friends were living. Six soldiers were killed in the ensuing battle, while Bagone-giizhig escaped and was never arrested.