The History of Minnesota And Tales of the Frontier
The History of Minnesota And Tales of the Frontier
Charles E Charles Eugene Flandrau
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I have been thus particular in my description of the movements at this point because it gives an idea of the defenseless condition in which the outbreak found the people of the country, and also because it shows the in- tense energy with which the settlers met the emergency, at its very inception, from which I will deduce the con- clusion at the proper time that this prompt initial action 10 146 History of Minnesota. saved the state from a calamity, the magnitude of which is unrecorded in the h...istory of Indian wars. Having described the defensive condition of Fort Ridgely and New Ulm, the two extreme frontier posts, the former being on the Indian reservation and the latter only a few miles southeast of it, I will take up the sub- ject at the capital of the state. The news reached Gov- ernor Ramsey, at St. Paul, on the 19th of August, the second day of the outbreak. He at once hastened to Mendota, at the mouth of the Minnesota river, and re- quested ex-Governor Sibley to accept the command of such forces as could be put in the field, to check the ad- vance of and punish the Indians.
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