History of the Sioux War and Massacres of 1862 and 1863. by Isaac V. D. Heard.Michigan Publishing, 1864 - 364 páginas |
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6th regiment afterward arms asked attack band battle Big Stone Lake Birch Coolie Bishop body braves Captain captives cavalry chief Chippeways Cloth Colonel Sibley command commenced council Creek Crow's Dakota dead dians escape father ferry fight fired Forest City Fort Abercrombie Fort Ridgely Fort Snelling friends Godfrey half-breeds heard horses hundred killed Lake Shetek Lean Bear Lieutenant Little Crow lived Lower Agency Lower Indians Mankato massacre miles Minnesota Minnesota River morning murder night o'clock outbreak party Patville Paul Peter's prairie prisoners ravine Red Iron Red-Wood Rice Creek Ridgely river savage scouts sent shot Sibley's side Sioux Sissetons soldiers soon squaw started tent thing tion told took town traders treaty Upper Indians village Wabashaw wagon Walking Spirit warriors whites wife woman women Wood Lake wounded Yanktonais Yellow Medicine young
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Página 61 - ... suddenly as from the woods and fields — suddenly as from the chambers of the air opening in revelation — suddenly as from the ground yawning at her feet, leaped upon her, with the flashing of cataracts, Death the crowned phantom, with all the equipage of his terrors, and the tiger roar of his voice.
Página 357 - Jour"•^ nal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839. By FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE. 12mo, Cloth, $1 25. THE CAPITAL OF THE TYCOON: A Narrative of a Three Years
Página 311 - Father went to St. Joseph last spring. When we were coming back he said he could not fight the white men, but would go below and steal horses from them and give them to his children, so that they could be comfortable, and then he would go away off. " Father also told me that he was getting old, and wanted me to go with him to carry his bundles. He left his wives and other children behind. There were sixteen men and one squaw in the party that went below with us.
Página 92 - They did very effective service in checking the advance, both by their unerring rifles and the good example their steadiness placed before the younger men. We discovered a concentration of Indians on the side of the street toward the river and at the rear of the buildings, and expected a rush upon the town from that position, the result of which I feared more than anything else...
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Página 91 - Dodd's body and several through that of his horse. The horsemen both turned and the captain got sufficiently near to be received by his friends before he fell. He died about five hours after being hit. Too much cannot be said of his personal bravery and general desire to perform his duty manfully.
Página 149 - I had sent your former letter to Governor Ramsey, but I have not yet had time to receive a reply. You have allowed your young men to commit nine murders since you wrote your first letter. That is not the way for you to make peace. HH SIBLEY, Col. com'g Mil. Exp'n.
Página 38 - We have been waiting a long time for our moneys. Our hunting season is past. A great many of our people are sick for being hungry. We may die because you won't pay us. We may die, but if we do we will leave our bones on the ground, that our Great Father may see where his Dakota children died. We are very poor. We have sold our hunting-grounds and the graves of our fathers.
Página 148 - I want to know from you as a friend what way that il can make peace for my people...