The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-09
THE BATTLE or NEW ULM
As Described in the Columns of the St.
Peter Tribune forty-SM Years Ago.

slowed upon the entire fighting
4 force at New Ulm. Nothing but
the coolest and most determined
courage and the most desperate
fighting saved what is left Of the
town and its 1000 inmates, and pre-
vented Mankato and this place from
the same attacks as New Ulm. Those
heroic men stayed the tide of mas
sacre and devastation and deserve
the heartfelt thanks of every citizen
of Minnesota. They stood like a
wall of fire for one whole days
fiercest firing from the most savage
of foes, cut off from reinforcements
from all quarters, their ammunition
/ giving out and their food rapidly be-
coming exhausted, and finally came
off safely from a victorious field.
Their suffering and peril pen cannot
describe, nor tongue express, and
yet, during all that dreadful day so
cavalry and several hundred infantry
lay at this place, only % miles away.
1t has been said that the infantry
arrived here too tired to travel with
out rest, butwe know that the caval :
ry was DESTROYS of going up on Fri
day evening, and if ever in history
of wars forced march was neces-
sary, it was at that moment. To
Judge Flandreau and his gallant lit
tie army of raw militia, one-third of
whose guns were useless, belongs
all the glory of saving this section
of Minnesota thus far.
During the hottest of the fight on
Saturday, Rev. B. Y. Coffin, Geo.
w. Stewart, J. B. Trogden and rs
others took a position in the wind
mill before mentioned, and although
at one time nearly surrounded by a
very large body of Indians, who had
learned the force of their unerring
shots, and seemed determined by a
bold dash to silence them, with their
force reduced by desertion to only
thirteen men, they poured in their
effective volley and the Indians re-
tired, and our men were left to fire
the buildings themselves at the ap-
proach Of night. To Guy w. Stew
art of LIE Sueur we give the honor
of taking down the flag, five minutes
after our men had left the building
The whole fighting force of men
could not have exceeded 200, while
the Indians numbered from 400 to
500. Our loss was 10 killed and so
wounded, while the killed and
wounded Indians must have been at
least 60. At one time DR.. Mayo be-
came so enraged at the cowardice of
some of the men that he rushed into
a cellar with a large dissecting
knife, and drove the men out under
fear of death. The towards did not
all belong to New Ulm.
Drs. Mayo, Daniels, Aver, McMa-
hon and Weschke performed invalu-
able services in taking care of the
wounded and sick. Their labors
were unremitting-
From the plan of attack, the large
attacking force and the fact that
the Indians withdrew from Fort
Ridgely on Friday, it is very evident
that the whole available fighting
force Of the Indians was concentrat-
ed on New Ulm on Saturday, with
a determination to take that town
by storm. The Indians undoubtedly
found the fort too hard nut for
them to crack and New Ulm has
made the test. There was a large
amount of plumber there and also
1000 souls to massacre. Being re-
pulsed there with considerable loss
they were seen passing by on the
opposite side of the river from the
fort on Monday with long train of
wagons, horses, cattle and all con-
ceivable kinds of plumber on their
way to the agencies.
INTERESTING INCIDENTS.
| We might fill volumes with incl
dents of almost miraculous escapes
from death. At one time H. A.
Swift and a few others had gone up
on the side of the first table land
when they were fired upon from a
log building only a few rods off,
which had been filled with Indians