St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-05
Bought the Women.

succeeded in bringing in Miss Gardner.
| brought bOtn these women TO ST. raul
and turned them over to Gov. Samuel
Medary, who then occupied the eXecu-
tive chair OF the territory, and they were
duly sent East to their friends.
When the news of the massacre and
the capture of the women reached st.
Paul the legislature was i'll session, and
it at once passed an act approDriating
$4,000 for the rescue of the prisoners,
fortunately imposing no restrictions
upon its expenditure, but giving the
governor carte blanche to put it where
it would do the most good" to use
modernism. He naturally concluded L
was best situated to manage the affair,
and gave me full power to do as |
pleased. As the women had been res
cued before | heard of the apprOpria-
ton, all could do was to pay the bond;
give each of the three Indians | had
sent out S400, reimburse myself for my
OUTLAWS and return the balance 10 the
treaSury-whlch was accordingly done.
Unique Documents.
As the methods of those days may be
interesting insert the vouchers taken:
Territory of MinneSOta.-To Ma-za-ku-ta-
MANI An-pe-tu tok-cha ana Che-tan-ma "a,
debtor, June ~. 1887.
For rescuing Miss Gardner from captivity
among the Ink-pa-du-taS band of Indians,
and for services performed in attem piing the
rescue of Mrs. Noble from the same Indians,
and for all services performed by them i'll
and about said matter.
s1.2000O.
Received Sioux Agency. June %, 1857, of
Samuel Medary, governor of Minnesota,
twelve hundred dollars. in full of this ac-
count. MA-zA -KU-TA MANI. mark.
AN-PE-TU- CHA, mark.
CHE-TAN-AA-ZA, y marx.
I certify OH honor that the above account
is correct and just. and that have actually
this 27th day of June, 1857. paid the amount
thereof CHAs E. FLANDRAU!
We witnessed the payment of said money
and the signatures Of said Indians.
STEWART B. GARvIE.
A J. CAMPBELL. Interpreter.
What | have related is about all of
interest connected with the capture and
rescue of the women. Now comes the
story of punishment, if SO small a result
as we achieved can be called punish
ment at all. As soon as | got my eXpe-
dition off | had a consultation with Col.
Alexander as to the proper measures to
take to destroy the band of Ink. .pa-du-
ia. We arranged that the moment my
expedition was heard from the five com
panIeS OF the Tenth United States in
fantry at the fort should proceed to-
wards Lake Chaupta-ya-tan-ka from
different directions apd arrive there
about the same time, hoping 70 be able
to annihiiate the savageS. One plan
was agreed on, and | have 10 doubt
would have been successful, had 1t not
been for an unforeseen difficulty. In
those days, telegraphs and railroads
were, of course, unknown, and we on
the frontier had to act OH our own re
spOnsibility without consultation or Or
derS from headquarters, and official
communications could only be made by
steamboats, and stages, and before our
military expedition could be put into
the field an order arrived sending the
whole command to Fort Bridger, in the
Mormon country, with the army under
Gen. Albert Sidney johnson, and off
they went on the same steamer that
brought the order. But before this, and
and about the time had settled up for
Miss Gardner, and either in the latter
part of June or the first of July, | re-
ceiVed notice that Ink-pa-du-ta and
several Of his band were at the Yellow
Medicine river. l Immediately
Made a RequisitiOn
on the fort for soldiers, and was given
lieutenant and fifteen men. They ar
rived at the Redwood agency at about
sundoWn. had collected and mounted
some ten or dozen men, mostly half
breeds. and some young gentlemen who
were visiting Inc at the agency, among
whom was son Of Prof. Morse of tele-
graphic fame, and navy man named
Charley Jenny. who, like Clusters
brothers and guests, regarded it in the
light of lark, and insisted on going.
We started at night in wagons and on
horseback for the Yellow Medicine
river, thirty miles distant. About half
way there is high butte on the prairie.
Here found An-pe-tu-tok-cha who had
been sent down by my informant to
meet me at this point and act as our
guide to the enemy. We arrived at the
Yellow Medicine river Just in the gray
of the morning, about four miles from
its mouth. and Stealthily crossed, keep
ing always roll of the prairie between
US and the camp of the enemy. The
maneuyers of this Indian gave me
better idea of the skill of these people
in making ambuSheS and surprises than
anything had before known. and was
no chicken in Indian affairs at that
time. No panther ever stole upon its
prey with more deadly silence and GER
tainty than we did On this occasion
under the guidance of this savage. He
pointed outsiX lodges standing separate
ly from the multitude of camps that
covered the prairie as far as the eye
could reach, as there were from 5000 TO
10000 Indians encamped in sight. We
who were mounted were to charge out
OH the prairie and cut off retreat in that
direction,and the infantry were to cover
the camp on the side rewards the river.
When every thing was ready, away we
went. The result was, man and
squaw, hand in hand, made for the
chapparel on the river bottom, and we
there surrounded them and killed the
man and captured the squaw. We only
wanted her to identify the Indian killed.
We put her in a wagon and all started
for the agency. This took us through
the midst of these great camps.
A Close Call.
One firing had stirred them all up to
point of fury, not surpassed by the
inmates of a hornets nest when you
run stick through it. They swarmed
on US: the SquaW screamed and yelled
as only squaw in distress can. 1t be-
came only a question of the firing of
one gun and we would all have gone
under in less time than it took to des-
troy Custer or Capt. Marsh'S command.
but the match was not applied and /
have always attributed it to the moral
force of the government that was be-
hind US. We made the agency, and
were. after several anxious days and
nights of sleepless watching, REIN
forced by the famous Buena Vista bat
terv, under the command of Mai.
Sherman, with several companies of
regulars under Maj. Patten, and got
out all right. The enterprise could
only be characterized as fool-hardy and
reckless in the extreme, and had we
been all slaughtered we would have no
one tU blame but ourselves
The Indian killed turned out to be the
eldest son of Ink-pa-du-ta and the head
devil in the massacre, so we accom-
pliShed some good. 1t was the first time
had ever made war on woman. and
recorded a solemn VOW then and there
that if / could safely get rid of her,
would never do it again. Of course we
let her 60, and were glad of the chance
to do so.
Some stirring events occurred subse-
Quently, while the troops were there
which L may relate hereafter.
CHARLES E. FLANDRAU
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