New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-27

of their presence in consequence of the
uprising.
Mr.. Pfaender then read several ex-
tracts from the ''New Ulm Pioneer, a
German newspaper of those times,
showing how unprepared and un-
suspecting the whites were. He con-
tinued:
The advices received did not cause
any fear of hostilities but it was only
few days before thestorm broke. We
see our sturdy German settlers on the
border of the Sioux reservation in
Milford, eight miles westerly of New
Ulm, prepare themselves fortheir days
work on the 18th day of August 1862,
when without the slightest warning the
savages bagan their work of de-
struction. This was carried on with
such cunning that hardly a victim
could escape to give the alarm, and
had it not been for fortunate accident
they might have succeeded in murder
ing the who population Of the Milford
settlement and to surprise New Ulm
before the news of their cruelties could
have reached the city. After recount
ing the meeting Of the citizens of New
Jim, Mr.. Pfaender continued:
We naturally recoil from going into
the particulars in regard to the scenes
Of cruelty attending the murder of
| about eighty men, women and children
in the upper part of Milford. There
was only small number of those who
were apprised of the danger before it
was too late, that succeeded in escap-
ing to the woods and reaching New
Ulm and some of the surviving wound
ed ones were rescued and brought to
New Ulm by an armed party under
direction of Sheriff Roos, in the even
ing. After giving the details of the at
tack Mr.. Pfaender said:
1t was not my good fortune to take
part personally in the defense of my
home and family, but on that account
I can with greater right give a de.
serving tribute to those who protected
our common home with such courage
and perseverance, for at that time I
was serving with eighteen citizens OF
New Ulm, half of them married, in the
lst Minnesota Battery of the Union
army. We were stationed at Corinth
in Mississippi, when just six days
after the attack upon New Ulm I re-
ceived the first news of the fact in a
st. Louis paper, without however
having any Information as to the fate
Of our home city, and the uncertainty
in regard to our families brought US
| into state of feverish excitement We
knew that we could not get a furlough,
but upon my personal representation
of the situation, | received an order
from General Grant to recruit for the
lst Minnesota Battery and was enabled
to leave the next day for home with
Lambert Naegele.
1t seemed at that time as if New Ulm
could not recover for the shock, for
over $50 buildings we're party or
wholly destroyed by fire, and only 80
buildings remained in the center of the
little city. But the organization OF
several companies of militia by act OF
the legislature which had been called
I together gave an opportunity to the
settlers to return to the home which
they had learned to love so we'll, and
to work with renewed vigor to build
up the ruined city, and we point with
satisfaction today to the results OF
their efforts.
1t was therefore very natural that
the citizens of New Ulm harbored the
| wish to see the defenders of our beau.
tiful city united here on the 10th ami
versary of those remarkable days, and
from the bottom of my heart, and in
the name of all the citizens of New
Ulm, and especially on behalf of the
veterans who were in the field and fa1
from home at that time, I extend tc
you our heartiest, sincerest thanks fol
your sacrifices and assure you that
our respect and gratitude for you viii
never die, and most of all that the
memory Of those who fell here in the
struggle for our homes and families
will ever be held sacred by all the
generations to come.
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