. History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863 . New Ulm with his head cut off,and placed in a certain indelicate part of the body, hedid it. It is I, he sung, it is I; and suited the ac-tion to the word by an indecent exposure of his per-son, in hideous mockery of the triumph of that jus-tice whose sword was already falling on his head. The scene at this juncture was one of awful inter-est. A painful and breathless suspense held the vastcrowd, which had assembled from all quarters to wit-ness the execution. Three slow, measured, and distinct beats on thedrum by Major Brown, who had
. History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863 . New Ulm with his head cut off,and placed in a certain indelicate part of the body, hedid it. It is I, he sung, it is I; and suited the ac-tion to the word by an indecent exposure of his per-son, in hideous mockery of the triumph of that jus-tice whose sword was already falling on his head. The scene at this juncture was one of awful inter-est. A painful and breathless suspense held the vastcrowd, which had assembled from all quarters to wit-ness the execution. Three slow, measured, and distinct beats on thedrum by Major Brown, who had been announced assignal officer, and the rope was cut by Mr. Duly (the 292 THE SIOUX WAR AND MASSACRE. same who killed Lean Bear, and whose family wereattacked)—the scaffold fell, and thirty-seven lifelessbodies were left dangling between heaven and of the ropes was broken, and the body of Bat-tling Eunner fell to the ground. The neck had prob-ably been broken, as but little signs of life were ob-served ; but he was immediately hung up ONE OP TiiE e:seouted Indians. While the signal-beat was being given, numbers wereseen to clasp the hands of their neighbors, which iuseveral instances continued to be clasped till the bod-ies were cut down. EXECUTION. 293 As the platform fell, there was one, not loud, butprolonged cheer from the soldiery and citizens whowere spectators, and then all were quiet and earnestwitnesses of the scene. For so many, there was butlittle suffering; the necks of all, or nearly all, wereevidently dislocated by the fall, and the after strug-gling was slight. The scaffold fell at a quarter pastten oclock, and in twenty minutes the bodies had allbeen examined by Surgeons Le Boutillier, Sheardown,Finch, Clark, and others, and life pronounced extinct. The bodies were then cut down, placed in fourarmy wagons, and, attended by Company K as a bur-ial-party, and under the command of Lieutenant Col-onel Marshall, were taken to the grave prepared f
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