Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-30

tn, later place, and hastily prepared
oy.r fires on the ground. The grist-
majs were surrendered TO the public
ue. All thought of property was absn-
dcned, women hung upon each others
Derks weeping, and the surviving ter
rO,. stricken children were crying pite-
ous'y Ground their knees. Houses
snd stables, alike, were occu-
Mad. and hundreds were with
out any shelter. Bail Plain
was crowded too, so was MaukatO, so
was Shskopee. Panic existed through
out the whole valley. And the safety
of those towns, with the thousands Of
lives within depended upon Colonel Sib.
Iey's success. Detatchments Of mounted
and foot soldiers were dispatched to New
Ulm and Fort Ridgely, the principal
centers Of the slaughter. The New Ulm
detachment cautiously approached the
town, expecting to cut their way through
the beleaguering Indians, and to be re-
ceiyed with the cheers and hospitality
of the people; but no sound greeted their
esrs. Soon they saw, thickly scattered
around, vast swollen cSrcasses Of cows
ard oxen and horses, perforated with
bullets. Presently they came upon the
blackened Temains Of burned buildings.
Across the pTinci al lay the naked,
hesdless body Of man, swollen like the
cattle, and blackened in the sun, the
head cut of and scalped, and tumbled
some distance from the trunk. Off the
street were new-made graves. The
doors Of standing houses were sjsr.
Every place was silence; every place
the confusion OF q hasty departure.
With drawn swords and pistols the
soldiers rushed up and down the streets
of the deserted city. Friend and foe
had departed.
The Lake Shelek settlement, about
seventy miles west of MaukstO, and
numbering about forty-flve persons in
all, was attacked by the bands Of Lean
Bear, White Lodge and Sleepy-Eyes.
Three women and six children were shot
down by one Iadian who had been the
recipient of frequent charities from the
very persons he 90 cruelty murdered.
Only twenty persons escaped, ten or
eleven being taken prisoners, and the
remainder killed. A detachment Of sol.
diers, under Major Brown, were sur
prised and surrounded by the Indians,
and when relieved by Colonel Sibley
they had been thirty-one hours without
food or water, and with but thirty roundE
ammunition. The camp, when res
cued, was surrounded by the dead bodies
of the horses, over ninety in number.
The tents were riddied with bullets, as
many 90 one hundred and iou1
being found in single one.
bitches were dug between the
tents and the dead horses, and dirt
piled on the latter to form breastWork.
Thirteen dead ard many wounded
soldiers were found III the ditch. A few
feet distant were found more dead
bodies, twenty-three having been killed
in all, aud forty-five wounded. Sibley
was compelled to rsmsin inactive fol-
many days at the fort, owing to want OF
ammunition and supplies, and during
this time correspondence was carried on
with the Indians for the delivery Of
csptives aud q cessation OF hOstilities
Nothing was accomplished in either
direction. At the battle of Wood Lake, 4
the eighteenth Of September, s bley lost
four men, and had about fifty wounded.
The Indian loss was fifteen killed, all OF
whom were scslped by the soldiers.
On September twenty. sixth, the In
disu camp opposite the mouth Of the
Cbippewsy was taken, and the white
caDtives released, Little Crow and some
two hundred warriors having hurriedly
fed. This virtuslly ended the Sioux
war. A military commission Of inquiry
was appointed to ascertain the guilty
parties, AM thirty or forty were arrested
Many Indians gave themselves up and
Others were surprised in the night. The
! prisoners were linked together in pair
Oy chains forged to their ankles. Or
| the twenty. first OF OotOber other pTisO
ners were brought in from Wild Coos,
Neck Lake, and on the Twenty-Five
more were captured at the Yellow Med
icine agency. The prisoners were takel
20 Fort Smelling, where over four nun
! bred OF them were tried. or these, thre
hundred and three were sentenced t
death and eighteen to imprisonment.
The records of the testimony and sen
fences of the Indians were sent to tn
President, bat no action was taken 70
several weeks. Finslly, thiriy-eight Q
them were ordered to be executed a
MsukatO on Friday, the twenty. sixtl
day Of February, 1868. The Gentenc
was carried into effect on the appointet
day, and the remainder were takel
down the Mississippi to Davenport an,
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