. History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863 . ^ of our countrj^ tells,bent on war to the death with the savage foe. Men. THE OOCRT-HO0SE OF THE MILITABY COMMISSION. HOMEWARD BOUND. 239 whose wives and children have been brutally mur-dered, and hearthstones blasted forever, will neverrest till blood has answered for blood. Gods fierceavengers in the future! success to their unerring ri-fles. Soon after our arrival the Indians were broughtdown from the Eed-Wood Eiver, and their campplaced near ours, around the walls of the church whichcharitable and pious hands had reared for their
. History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863 . ^ of our countrj^ tells,bent on war to the death with the savage foe. Men. THE OOCRT-HO0SE OF THE MILITABY COMMISSION. HOMEWARD BOUND. 239 whose wives and children have been brutally mur-dered, and hearthstones blasted forever, will neverrest till blood has answered for blood. Gods fierceavengers in the future! success to their unerring ri-fles. Soon after our arrival the Indians were broughtdown from the Eed-Wood Eiver, and their campplaced near ours, around the walls of the church whichcharitable and pious hands had reared for their bene-fit. The male prisoners were confined in the jailwhich had recently been constructed, and the trialswere conducted in a log building heretofore occupiedby the murdered mixed-blood, La Batte, for unroman-tic kitchen purposes, but now destined to pass intohistory and be immortalized. The avenging Nemesishad brought the guilty to an appropriate spot, andthat on easfle wings, for here it was that the mad sat-urnalia first began. The fire had scarcely died out inthe ruins of the goodly buildings which they destroy-ed, or the bl
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