Identifier: historyofmarshal00west (find matches)
Title: The History of Marshall County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of the Northwest, history of Iowa, map of Marshall County, constitution of the United States, miscellaneous matters, etc
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub
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Publisher: Chicago, Western Historical Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the Sioux Indians. In August, 1862, the Sioux Indians living on the western borders ofMinnesota fell upon the unsuspecting settlers, and in a few hours mas-sacred ten or twelve hundred persons. A distressful panic was theimmediate result, fully thirty thousand persons fleeing from their homesto districts supposed to be better protected. The military authoritiesat once took active measures to punish the savages, and a large numberwere killed and captured. About a year after, Little Crow, the chief,was killed by a Mr. Lampson near Scattered Lake. Of those captured,thirty were hung at Mankato, and the remainder, through fears of mobviolence, were removed to Camp McClellan, on the outskirts of the Cityof Davenport. It was here that Big Eagle came into prominence andtjeoured his release by the following order: 80 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.
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BIG EAGLE. THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 81 Special Order, No. 430. War Department, Adjutant Generals Office, Washington, Dec. 3,1864. • Big Eagle, an Indian now in confinement at Davenport, Iowa,will, upon the receipt of this order, be immediately released from confine-ment and set at liberty. By order of the President of the United States. Official: ^ E. D. Townsend, Asst Adft G-en. Capt. James Vanderventer, Comy Sub. Vols. Through Comg Genl, Washington, D. C. Another Indian who figures more prominently than Big Eagle, andwho was more cowardly in his natnre, with his band of Modoc Indians,is noted in the annals of the New Northwest: we refer to Captain Jack.This distinguished Indian, noted for his cowardly murder of Gen. Canby,was a chief of a Modoc tribe of Indians inhabiting the border landsbetween California and Oregon. This region of country comprises whatis known as the Lava Beds, a tract of land described as utterly impene-trable, save by those savages who had made it their home.

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