The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-09-05


terrible outbreak of 1862. The MUIR
dered people comprised acolony that
had recently located there from Wis
consin. They were all Germans. As
soon as they learned the approach OF
Indians they attempted to hide in
corn field on the farm now owned by
Fisher, but the Indians passed through
the field discovered and slaughtered
their victims without mercy. 1t is un-
derstood that Mr.. Fisher will donate
the ground to the Historical society,
providing the society causes suitable
monument to be erected on the spot.
Mr.. Gilfillan is of the opinion that
the next legislature will be quick to
order the erection of suitable shaft.
Another spot which Mr.. Gilillan is
DESTROYS of having marked at once is
the camping grounds of Gen. Pope,
known as Camp Pope, while chasing
Indians in this vicinity. The camp is
about one mile north of this city and
but very little, if any trace of it re-
mains. A mound, in which many dead
Indians were thrown after the battle,
once marked the spot, but relic hunt
ers have dug down into this mound
and taken from it the skulls and bones
of Indian warriors, spear heads, but
tons, etc., except the etc. did not in
clude any huge chunks of gold. Col.
VIM. Crooks, now chief engineer of
the Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad,
was with Gen. Pope on that memoir
able campaign. He is an old friend
of Mr.. Gilfillan. Col. Crooks is ex-
pected in Redwood Falls some time
during the next year and Mr.. Gilfillan
hopes to have him locate the spot of
the camp as near as possible. 1t has
also been decided by the valley his
torical society that when the spot is
definitely located to find huge stone
and place there, have the same pol
ished and suitably inscribed until a
legislature orders a shaft or a suitable
stone to take its place.
Another point, the exact location of
which is causing great deal of dis
cussion, is the exact spot on which
Little Grow and his band of followers
camped during the massacre. Some
of the soldiers living that participated
in the campaign are of a decided opin-
ion that Little Crows house stood
west of Grow Creek, three miles east
of here, while there are others who in
sist that the chieftan camped east of
the Creek, near the Minnesota river.
Col. Crooks may also be able to throw
some light on that subject when he
looks over the ground, and if the spot
is satisfactorily located a suitably in
scribed stone will mark the chieftan's
last camp on the Minnesota river,
east of Redwood Falls.
The last legislature ordered the
Birch Coulee monument changed
back from it's present commanding
position on top of the hill northeast
of Morton to a point a mile and a half
north. The acknowledgement and an
other person we're appointed to carry
out the instructions of the legislature,
which appropriated some money to
carry on the change and defray ex
penses. The adjutant-generals corps
visited the spot some months ago and
it has just leaked out that the mem
bers encountered precisely the same
difficulty in making the change as
was encountered by the commission in
deciding on the location. 1t will be
remembered that an old German farm
or owns the farm on which the battle
really occurred. He asked the com
mission one hundred dollars per acre
for two acres of the ground. This
the commission considered exhorbi.
tant and refused to pay. They had
no power of condemnation and were
obliged to accept the next best loca-
ton on which a portion of the battle
was fought. This they did and there
erected monument. The German
farmer has raised his price a few
notches since the first commission op-
ened negotiations with him. It ia I'M.