New Ulm review., 1912-09-11

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October s. 1869, . commission Il
sued by Alexander Ramsey, 0overno
and Commander In Chief Of the Mil
tary Forces Of the State. and BY o.
car Malmros, Adjutant General. g
pointed Charles Roos, Of Brown Couu
ty, Captain of Company "A" Browl
County Volunteer State Militia organi
zed under order No. &C. dated SEP
tember "a. 1862. Issued in less thai
a month and a half after the Indial
troubles, this marks the hrst efior
to form q military organization To-
the further protection Of New Ulm.
A commission issued by the SANE
military ofacers to Charles Ross OF
Feb. 2, 1863, appointing him Firs
Lieutenant in the First Battery O
Light Artillery of Uniformed Stat.
Militia, and another commission is
sued June Z. 1863, appointing hin
Captain in the 1st Company Light
Artillery, 22d Regiment Minnesota
State Militia. corroborate the outline
of the organization of the first bat
terry in New Ulm, which was outlined
in an earlier article of this series.
A letter written to Governor Alex.
ander Ramsey. Sept. Is, 1862, reciting
the conditions existing in New Ulm
at that time, telling about the assis-
tance needed, and suggesting plans
for the future defense is one Of the
most interesting pf the documents
and is as follows: ". :
New Ulm, Sept. Is, 1862.
Ills Excellency, Governor Of the
State Of Minnesota, j.. s.....
Alexander Ramsey. ~.l.s =.
Most Excellent Sir :" f..''.>>":, y;
take the liberty to send you .
letter again, that is, II you or the
Legislature choose to send some cloth!
ing for our men here, most Of them
needing clothes Of every kind and
none, ready made, to be had. We
have saved two sewing machines, and
women and men enough to work on
them: therefore If we only get the
material, we will detail one Tailor"
two men for the sewing machines and
about 10 women to make the clothes.
The most of the men coming back
and joining my company and COM
pany "B" have saved only what they
have on their body, because when
leaving this place they had no time
to look around for such things, they:
had to keep their eyes open for the
safety of the train.
The muster roll of my company
will be sent in few days. In three
days Co. "B" will be full and the
muster roll made out, but they are
armed only with their shotguns. Co.
"A" has in all, 80 man. Shall IL
muster into this company more men,?
some more of our citizens would like
% join my company II they get arms,
or If I will take them as they are. 4
Another question is this. Most Of
,ur teams are going. To bring IN
Dur grain and strengthen our Town
We need all we have and we don't
ike to lose one of our horses by i'm
Has any oficer = right
10 impress our horses? All I know,
We have or 10 span of horses in
he County. We have 2 good threshs
ing machines. They have to work
about 4 months, as I was told by, tho
owners of them. Then we need hay
Ior our cattle and for horses of the
Co., etc., stationed and coming through
here. Therefore we need for about
one week, all the reapers we have
saved. Then we have to build the
brick houses for Quarter and defense,
IL by 30 It. and the defense wall,
II feet high and the wall facing the
town, 8 #. All this work., except
must be done before winter
comes. Besides this we will make
q good breastwork around the town,
4 feet high and two feet deep in the
ground on the inner side, so that
man in his position is behind an
earth wall Of 4 feet high and 2 feet
wide, and for protection of his head
while firing his gun, a two feet high
board fence over the wall.
Now the town will be as follows,
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