Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-10-14
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s amous Indian Bat ground y
Dedicated. Sketch If Fight
Wednesday the granite shaft COM
memoratirg the chief Indian engage:
sment with the whites In North Da.
!. .kota was unveiled on the battle
! ground IN western Dickey county.
The event celebrated the complete
rout Of the murderons Sioux tribes
who had been engaged in the mas.
sacre9 9at New Ulm, Minn., and we're
met and punished BY General Splly
and his small band Of country sol
sdiers, Sept. 3rd. 1853. 5.5s q. h; y.
a large crowd gathered at the bat
te6eld Wednesday morning, coming
/; from surrounding towns BY autos and
v ~ $vehi icles. ": "a daughter Of Col.
/ Wilson Of the 9th Iowa volunteers,
one OF the officers Of Sully's force,
! unveiled the monument. Governor
Burke was the speaker Of the occa.
| sion and received the shaft for the
! state and paid . tribute to the loyal
/ u Of the solniers. President Worst
81 the North Dakota Agricultural
College also delivered an address to-
Retner with other speakers. Several
surviving members Of Gen. Suliy' g
army were present during the inter
s esting ceremony. d, 4
The granite shaft will cost 5000.
.rhe spot where the monument was
erected is one Of NATURES beauty
spots. Looking OF from the mound
one can see hill after hill, stretching
\ aWay#like the waves Of the sea. Onl,
) few rods from the peak where the
bloodiest Of the lighting occurred Is
beautiful Whitestone lake. and near
BY is the rock formation, cropping
out OF the ground that gave the
place its name. ss.4 rs.
One Of stho.e present ct the dedica-
s tion was the bugler who called the
soldiers to arms. A. IL
! Story OF the Battle.
In 1853 Gen. sully, who had sfot
& weeks Esen securing the @Dakota ter
.ritory ID search Of the Indians who
we're terrorizing the country with
their bloody deeds and who had taken
\ part In the massacres ct New Ulm
and other places, vent into camp
early In the afternoon just ten miles
south Of the present site Of White.
stone. 3.st 81 " Il ].
"a scouting part of 200 picked men
was sent out to run down fresh signs
of the enemy. In the Kotah hills,
near the little Whit estone lake, sur.
rounded by high peaks. the Indians
had gone into camp to lay In their
winter supply Of jerked buffalo meat.
There were about 6, GOO redskins, near
Iva third Of whom were warriors
The little party Of scouts had under
4 estimaed the enemy's strength and
permitted themselves to be entrsp-
ned. Col. House Of the Sixth Iowa
cavalry was u command. 81
us Scouts we're sent back to Gen. Sui
ly with all possible speed. and.
4 awaiting reinforcements, Col. House
I (, ,parleyed with, the redskins IL order
TO- gain time. The Indians y er.
equally anxious to gainstime to- break
/ camp and be ready for instant fRh.
should such . course be necessary.
i When the scouts sent back TO the
main army reached there the tired
soldiers were lust cooking their coffee
( and getting ready for the evening
meat. ,,33s
s8 on the Scene Ia an Hour. Hsssass
The bugls sounded the call Of
!. BOOTS ana sad dies. and inso one hour
! tie troops had mounted. covered the
intervening ten miles and were in
ttims to assist IA the attack It was Ilt'
lust an hour and half before sun y q:
81 rh1se, J1s,s 4 alittll 81 army consisted ofs the
second Nebfaska cavalry, the Sixth
4 Io,Ra d, ii c.ayalrr!y. the Dakota 4 company
}ss,of the Seventh |. Iowa. and the four
\ sR1nns bait ery of ightS artil llery. II q M'he
Indians real king tiiat the day "a
n ~ exon ningi SSxas Z atf hant, formed into
i ! hollow square, the old men, squaws
/ ss,lil and child rem int the csnfer and Me
WARRIORS s6n tiies soQterf line, prepared
tol sell yes a. dearly as poss Die !.