. Indian history for young folks . 1862. CROW. * See History of the Sioux War, by I. V. D. Heard. INDIAN WARS (1862-1877). 427 News of the massacre reached Fort Bidgeley before noon, and CaptainMarsh, of the Fifth Minnesota Volunteers, started at once tor the Agencywith forty-eight men. This small force was sun-onnded by the Sioux atthe ferry opposite the Agency, and one-half of them killed, the rest escap-ing by flight, Messengers were now sent by Little Crow to other Indianbands, many of whom at once joined GENERAL That night a converted Indian notified the people at I
. Indian history for young folks . 1862. CROW. * See History of the Sioux War, by I. V. D. Heard. INDIAN WARS (1862-1877). 427 News of the massacre reached Fort Bidgeley before noon, and CaptainMarsh, of the Fifth Minnesota Volunteers, started at once tor the Agencywith forty-eight men. This small force was sun-onnded by the Sioux atthe ferry opposite the Agency, and one-half of them killed, the rest escap-ing by flight, Messengers were now sent by Little Crow to other Indianbands, many of whom at once joined GENERAL That night a converted Indian notified the people at ITazlewood, themission station six miles above the Upper Agency, of their danger, andforty-two persons, including the missionaries Riggs and Williamson, withtheir families, made their escape. Their safe passage through the numer-ous scattered bands of hostiles on their route seems almost the very day of the outbreak—just a day too late—seventy-two thou-sand dollars for the payment of the Indians reached Fort Ridgeley. For nearly three weeks the Indians had it all their own way, meetingwith no effectual resistance, so many of the men being absent in the Union 428 INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. armv. Their depredations extended throughout the whole western portionof Minnesota, and into Iowa and Dakota, They were repulsed from FortsRidgeley and Al>ereroml>ie, and from the settlements at New Ulm andilutchinson. In two weeks fifteen or twenty of the frontier counties werealmost depopulated. When
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