. History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863 . t* HOMEWAED BOUND. 243 dead from the street for more appropriate that we were passing by, they all rushedforth, men, women, and children, armed with clubs,pitchforks, hoes, brickbats, knives, and guns, and at-tacked the prisoners. The women were perfectly fu-rious ; they danced around with their aprons full ofstones, and cried for an opportunity to get at the prisoners, upon whom they poured the most violent rushed forward and discharged a shower ofstones. One woman, who had a long knife in herhand, was espec
. History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863 . t* HOMEWAED BOUND. 243 dead from the street for more appropriate that we were passing by, they all rushedforth, men, women, and children, armed with clubs,pitchforks, hoes, brickbats, knives, and guns, and at-tacked the prisoners. The women were perfectly fu-rious ; they danced around with their aprons full ofstones, and cried for an opportunity to get at the prisoners, upon whom they poured the most violent rushed forward and discharged a shower ofstones. One woman, who had a long knife in herhand, was especially violent in her demonstrations,and another pounded an Indian in the face till shebroke his jaw, and he fell backward out of the were the brutal murderers of their friends. Theprisoners cowered low, and the negro Godfrey, wholived in the neighborhood of this theatre of his ex-ploits, and was well known in New Ulm, took goodcare to cover his head with his blanket, and crouchclose down in his wagon. The expedition soon reach-ed Mankato, near
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