Dakota war-whoop : or Indian massacres and war in Minnesota, of 1862-'3 / by Harriet E. Bishop McConkey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bishop, Harriet E., 1817-1883, author.

Series:

Routledge revivals.

Routledge revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dakota Indians--Wars, 1862-1865.

Dakota Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

First published in 1970, this volume from Mrs Harriet E. Bishop McConkey, a pioneer schoolteacher of St. Paul, Minnesota, was part of the first wave of contemporaneous accounts from Americans in 1863 documenting their perspective of the Sioux Uprising between the 17th of August and the 26th of September 1862.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Original Half Title

Original Title Page

Original Copyright Page

Dedication

Preface

Foreword

Contents

Chapter I. Introduction

Chapter II. The Bread Raid

Chapter III. The First Blow

Chapter IV. The Council Fire

Chapter V. The Outbreak at Red Wood

Chapter VI. The Slaugater

Chapter VII. George H. Spencer

Chapter VIII: Captivity and Release of George Spencer, as Told by Himself

Chapter IX. U. S. Troops cut to Pieces

Chapter X. Yellow Medicine

Chapter XI. The Family of an Old Settler Taken Captives

Chapter XII. The Panic

Chapter XIII. Attack on New Ulm

Chapter XIV. Attack on Fort Ridgley

Chapter XV. Second and Final Attack on New Ulm

Chapter XVI. Battle of New Ulm-Official Report of Captain Flandrau

Chapter XVII. The Mission Party

Chapter XVIII. Massacre at Big Stone Lake

Chapter XIX. Murder of Amos W. Huggins

Chapter XX. Cause of the War-What is an Indian?

Chapter XXI. Lake Shetak Massacre

Chapter XXII. The General Onslaught

Chapter XXIII. Outbreak at the North

Chapter XXIV. Siege of Fort Abercrombie

Chapter XXV. Indian at Sioux Falls City

Chapter XXVI. The Heroic Boy

Chapter XXVII. Siege of Hutchinson

Chapter XXVIII. Battle of Birch Coolie

Chapter XXIX. Battle of Birch Coolie

Chapter XXX. Wandring Refugees

Chapter XXXI. The Maniac

Chapter XXXII. Tales of Suffering

Chapter XXXIII. The Athenæum

Chapter XXXIV. The Captive's Expreience as Further Related by Himself

Chapter XXXV. Efforts to Regain the Prisoners

Chapter XXXVI. Correspondence of Gen. S. and Little Crow Continued

Chapter XXXVII. Battle of Wood Lake

Chapter XXXVIII. Official Report of Col. Siblet to Gov. Ramsey

Chapter XXXIX. The Chippewas

Chapter LX. The Captive's Peril.

Chapter LXI. The Friendly Camp

Chapter LXII. Camp Release

Chapter LXIII. Trial of the Prisoners

Chapter LXIV. Mrs. Huggins in Captivity

Chapter LXV. Mrs. Huggins in Care Walking Spirit

Chapter LXVI. The Alarms

Chapter LXVII. Leaving for the Plains

Chapter LXVIII. Release and Return

Chapter LXIX. Removal to Camp Sibley

Chapter L. Removal of the "Good Indians" to Fort Snelling

Chapter LI. Protest on Senator Wilkinson

Chapter LII. Cause of the Dakota Uprising

Chapter LIII. Preparations for the Execution of the Condemned Indians

Chapter LIV. The Execution

Chapter LV. The Condemned

Chapter LVI. The Winnebagoes Declare war with the Sioux

Chapter LVII. An Alaram

Chapter LVIII. Removal of the Good Indians

Chapter LIX. Horse Stealing

Chapter LX. Murder of the Dustin Family

Chapter LXI. Little Crow's Whereabouts

Chapter LXII. The Ransomed

Chapter LXIII. The Indian Expedition

Chapter LXIV. Death of Gen. Little Crow

Chapter LXV. Capture of Wo-wi-nap-a

Chapter LXVI. The Captive Boys

Chapter LXVII. Thrilling Adventure of Brackett, and Death of Lieut. Freeman

Chapter LXVIII. The Captive John Julien

Chapter LXIX. Progress of the Expedition

Chapter LXX. Capture of a Teton

Chapter LXXI. Death of Lieut. Beever

Chapter LXXII. Terminus of the Campaign

Chapter LXXIII. Official Report of Maj. Gen. Henry H. Sibley

Chapter LXXIV. Official Report of Brigadier General Alfred Sully

Chapter LXXV. The of Comeadeship

Chapter LXXVI. Home Again

Conclusion.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-429-68112-7

OCLC:

1103221968