Identifier: adventuresofante00peir (find matches)
Title: The adventures of "Antelope Bill" in the Indian war of 1862
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Peirce, Parker I
Subjects: Dakota Indians
Publisher: (Marshall? Minn.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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r-dered. Lieut. Sheehan lost no time; thatnight his soldiers marched 42 miles in ninehours and fifty minutes,such a march as wasnever equalled by infantry. At 9 oclock a. m., they reachedthe fort towhicu refugees from all the country aroundwere flockiug. That same morning the Indians held agreat council on the prairie about two milesfrom the fort and were addressed by LittleCrow himself. It had been his plan to attackFort Ridgley at once, but the council deter-mined to attack New Ulm first. The Indianswere then observed to pass to the southwardon the west side of the river* The next morn-ing the little garrison of the fort was furtherstrengthened by the arrival of a company offifty recruits under Lieut, Gorman the companyhaving been hastily organized at St. Peter, andcourageously marched all night with but three rounds of ammunition for their antiquatedmuskets. On the 18th Clerk Wyckoff had ar-rived with $70,000 in gold for annuities. Thetotal fighting strength of the force, including
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Iiittle Ci<ota. The old leader of the Sioux forces at Ft: Ridgelyand throughout the massacre Shot by J, E.Lampson near Hutchinson, — 68 — armed civilians, was now augmented to 180resolute men while the non-combatant men,women and children in the fort, numbered 300,Lieut. Sheehan, by virtue of seniority ofrank, took command of the fort immediatelyupon his arrival, and forthwith set about activepreparations for the battle which was sure tocome. The men of Company B of the Fifthregiment being expert in the use of artillery,were assigned to the management of that in thefort of which three pieces were put in serviceat once. Ordinance-Sergeant Jones was put incharge of a six-pounder field-piece, and Ser-geant James G, McGrew and James C. Whip-ple, an experienced artillerist, were each as-signed command of a twelye-pouuder mountainhowitzer. The fort itself, was a fort only in name.Like all of our forts on the frontier it was de-signed more as a military cantonment than as aplace where

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