The fall after, Colonel Sibley set up a court room in one of the kitchens of one of the Lower Sioux Agency's trading houses. The judges were the officers who had been fighting them just days before. They rushed through the cases, not wanting to deal with them for a longer time. Stephen Riggs didn't like how the trials were being conducted but most of the Minnesotans supported the trials. It took 39 days to sentence 303 Dakota men to be hanged. President Lincoln met with Henry Whipple. He described the terrible conditions of the military camp that held the Dakota men.