Indian Massacre in Minnesota : a history of the great massacre by the Sioux / Charles S. Bryant and Abel B. Murch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryant, Charles S.

Contributor:

Murch, Abel B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dakota Indians--Wars, 1862-1865.

Dakota Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (517 p.)

Place of Publication:

Scituate, Mass. : Digital Scanning, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Indian Massacre in Minnesota was written over 100 years ago by a man whose job was to process claims for property damaged by Sioux raiders after they went on the warpath, killing pioneer families and taking many of those who survived into captivity. He documented the terrifying tales told by settlers of the horrors they suffered. However, to properly present this tragic time, the book begins by giving a brief account of the Sioux Indians; the harsh treatment by our government (who ignored a treaty that promised $2 million for their land), their living conditions on the reservations and their complaints. The resulting account of the massacres and conspiracy by the great chief Little Crow is also described, along with the personal accounts of the survivors.

Contents:

Cover

Half title

Little Crow

Title page

Act of Congress information

Copyright

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PORTRAIT OF LITTLE CROW.

PORTRAIT OF CUT-NOSE.

PORTRAIT OF JOHN OTHER DAY.

PORTRAIT OF STANDING BUFFALO.

PORTRAIT OF MRS. LAVINA EASTLICK AND CHILDREN.

PORTRAIT OF MRS. ALOMINA HURD.

MERTON EASTLICK, CARRYING HIS BROTHER JOHNNY FROM LAKE SHETEK TO DUTCH CHARLEY'S.

CHAPTER I

Louis Hennepin's Visit to the Upper Mississippi, in l680

The Country occupied by Wild Tribes of Indians

Visited by Carver in 1766

The Naudowessies, or Dakota Indians

War with the Chippewas

Peace made by Carver

His services rewarded

Origin of the name Sioux

Division of Tribes

Manners

Dress and Mode of Living

Origin of certain Indian Names

Treaties with the Sioux Indians from 1812 to 1858

Called Isanties by the trans-Missouri Sioux

Their Reservations

Annuity System Inaugurated

Civilization Efforts

Their Difficulties

Settlements of the Whites contiguous to the Reservations

Conclusion

General Summary.

CHAPTER II

Complaints of the Indians

Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota

Objections to the Mode of Payment

Inkpaduta

Massacre at Spirit Lake

Proofs of a Conspiracy

Indian Councils.

CHAPTER III

Change of Indian Officials

The New Superintendent and Agent

Semi-annual Gathering of Indians at the Agencies

Payment of 1861

Troops at Payment

Yanktonais

Crops of 1861

Report of Agent Galbraith

Destitute Condition of Indians in Winter of 1861 and 1862

Relief afforded them

Efforts for their Benefit

Agricultural Labors

Upper and Lower Bands

Estimates

Supplies

Lac qui Parle

Big Stone Lake

A. W. Huggins

Julia Laframbois

Crops

A Surplus.

Hopes of Civilization of Indians

Complaints

Upper Bands at the Agency

Attack on the Warehouse

Renville Rangers

Return to Fort Ridgley

Painful Scenes on the Way

Flight of the People

Safe Arrival

Annuity Money at the Fort

False Statement of White Men to the Indians

Indian Statements not to be relied upon.

CHAPTER IV

Murders at Acton

The Indians not Drunk

Cox, the Insane Man

Mrs. Baker goes for Help

Burial Party from Forest City

They see Indians

Massacre at the Lower Agency

Philander Prescott

Rev. S. R. Riggs

Dr. Thomas S. Williamson

Agent Galbraith

Rev. J. D. Hinman

The work of Death begins

John Lamb

A. H. Wagner

J. C. Dickinson

Dr. Humphrey

Lynd

Myrick

Divoll

George H. Spencer

Wakinyatawa

Patrick McClellan

John Nairn

Alexander Hunter and Wife

Killing of Prescott

J. C. Whipple

C. B. Hewett

James Powell

Red Wood River

Joseph B. Reynolds and Family

William Landmeier

Legrand Davis

John Moore

Francis Patoile

Capture of Mattie Williams, Mary Anderson,and Mary Schwandt

Death of Mary Anderson

Murder of George Gleason

Capture of Mrs. Wakefield and Children.

CHAPTER V

Massacre on the north side of the Minnesota

Indians seen in large numbers,all through the settlements

The people at Beaver Creek attempt to escape

Burning of Mrs. Henderson and two children

Escape of J. W. Earle and others

German settlement

Indians appear under Shakopee

The Settlers nearly all killed

Escape of Peter Bjorkman

Escape of Mrs. Lateau

Story of Mary Hayden

La Croix Creek

Statement of Kearn Horan

Murders near Birch Coolie

Patterson's Rapids

The Settlers endeavor to escape

Murder of the Schwandt family

A scene of awful horror

Indian duplicity

Wholesale Massacre.

Upper Agency

The people warned by Joseph Laframbois and Other Day

Shooting of S. B. Garvie

Escape of D. R. Kennedy and J. D. Boardman

Escape of Peter Patoile

Escape of the Whites from Yellow Medicine

The people at the Missions warned by friendly Indians and half-breeds, and escape

Settlement on the Chippewa

Murder of James W. Lindsay and his comrade.

CHAPTER VI

Leopold Wohler and Wife

Major Brown's family

Charles Blair

Capture of the party from Brown's

Escape of Blair from Little Crow's village to Fort Ridgley

The Ingalls family

Sad fate of the two little boys

The Frace family

Leavenworth

Murder of the Blum family

Death of Philetus Jackson

Statement of Mrs. Mary J. Covill

Escape of Charles Smith and others

Mrs. Harrington, Mrs. Hill, and Mr. Henshaw

Murder of Henshaw

Escape of the two women

Adventures of John Jackson

Story of Mrs. Laura Whiton

Elijah Whiton

He meets William J. Duly, of Lake Shetek

Killing of Whiton and escape of Duly

Adventures of Mrs. Harrington

Killing of the Heyers family

Fiendish barbarity

Milford

The Massipost family

The Hanleys

Bastian Mey and family

Adolph Shilling and his Daughter killed

The Zeller and Zettle families all killed

Jacob Keck and others

Charles Zierke

The Browns

Nicollet County

William Mills

Lieutenant Sheehan

West Newton

Lafayette

Courtland

Swan Lake

Partial list of the killed in Nicollet County

Charles Nelson

Extract of letter from Captain Chittenden

Death of Jacob Mauerle

Murder of Felix Smith

Indians scouring the country

A scouting party seen at St. Peter.

CHAPTER VII

The Whites killed

Wonderful escape of Baptiste Gubeau

Anton Manderfeld

Lake Shetek

Names of the Settlers

Population of Murray County.

Mrs. Alomina Hurd escapes with her two children

Mrs. Koch: her Woman 's Wit:she secures the Friendship of a Squaw,and together they escape

The Settlers assemble at the house of John Wright

They start for the Settlements on the Minnesota, and are overtaken by the Indians

The Battle

The Whites defeated, and many of them killed

Mrs. Julia A. Wright, Mrs. Koch and Mrs.Duly,and their children,captured

Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Duly taken to the Missouri: subsequently ransomed by Major Galpin

The brothers Burns

Spirit Lake

Massacre in Jackson County

Territory

Statement of Henry Masters

Murders at Sioux Falls

The Mailcarrier

Depopulation of the Country

Destruction of Property.

CHAPTER VIII

Occurrences previous to the Attack on the Town of New Ulm

Recruiting Party attacked, and several killed

The Country People flee to the Town

The Panic

Crowded condition of the Citizens and Refugees in the Town

The Attack by Indians

Burning the Buildings

Reinforcements from Nicollet and St. Peter

The Contest becomes Fierce

Arrival of Judge Flandrau with Reinforcements

Arrival of a Company under Captain Bierbauer

The Fight Continues

Lieutenant Huey, and seventy-five Men under him, sent over the River

Cut off from Retreat

Their Escape

Death of William B. Dodd

Heroic conduct of J. B. Trogdon and others

Firing from the Windmill

Post-office

Captain E. St. Julien Cox and Company arrive

The Enemy retire

Evacuation of New Ulm

Incidents.

CHAPTER IX

Battle at Lower Agency Ferry

Captain Marsh goes to the Relief of the Agency

Meeting with Martelle

He reaches the River at the Ferry

The Ambush

The Fight

Heroic Conduct of Captain Marsh

Frightful Loss of Men

His Retreat

Attempt to cross the River

His Death

Tribute to his Memory.

Siege of Fort Ridgley

The Force in the Garrison

Defenseless Condition of the Fort

Battle of Wednesday

Jack Frazer

Want of Water

Improvising Cartridges

Battle of Friday

Waiting and Watching

Reinforcements arrive

The Florence Nightingale of Fort Ridgley

Sergeant John Jones

J. W. De Camp

Mrs. Sergeant Jones

Frank Le Clair

Burning an Indian

Henry Balland

Adventures of Louis Robert.

CHAPTER X

Captain Whitcomb's arrival at St.Paul

Meets Colonel Sibley at Shakopee

His arrival at Forest City

Dead Bodies found Mutilated by Indians

Passes through Meeker County

A Fort Constructed

Visits Monongalia County

Engagement with Indians

Falls back, fighting on their Retreat

Fortification Erected

Quarters his Men in the Hotel

Attack on Forest City

Town partly Burned

Indians Defeated

Condition of the Country

Captain Strout at Glencoe

Town Fortified by General Stevens

Captain Strout advances to the Frontier

Passes through Hutchinson

Attacked near Acton by one hundred and fifty Indians

Bravery of our Troops

The number of Whites killed and wounded

Captain Strout falls back to Hutchinson

Attack on Hutchinson

Captain Strout reinforced by Captain Davis and Lieutenant Weinmann

Indians pursued on their Retreat from Hutchinson

Kingston protected by Lieutenant Byrnes

Captain Pettit sent to reinforce Whitcomb

Rockford

Paynesville

Norway Lake

St. Joseph

Sauk Center

Grove Lake

St. Cloud

Richmond

Clearwater

Morrison County.

CHAPTER XI

Hostilities in the Valley of the Red River of the North

Condition of Fort Abercrombie

Georgetown

Breckinridge

Old Crossing

Graham's Point

Settlers reach the Fort

Men killed near Breckinridge

Assistance requested.

Captains Freeman and Davis ordered to go to the Relief of Abercrombie.

Notes:

"As published in 1864."

Spine title: Indian massacre in Minnesota.

Originally published: A history of the great massacre by the Sioux Indians, in Minnesota :including the personal naratives of many who escaped. Cincinnati :R. W. Carroll & co., 1864.

ISBN:

1-58218-409-7

OCLC:

320320068