Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-09-12

Hill. whose entire command lay at
Culpeper Court House. not far away.
Buford, his men well in hand, forged
ahead The farther he went the sitter
the opposition became. Warning shots
had been fred at the river early In the
morning, and Hill had moved forward
with 5000 infantry and three batteries.
Stuart didn't stand to accept fight. but
fell back behind the infantry.
When Stuart's troopers retired be-
fore the Federal advance they took to
the ear all the white citizens and the
negroes. The object was to prevent
Buford from picking up valuable news.
But he learned that Hill was at Gull
pepper and Lee at Gordonsville, a days
march farther on. One of Buford's
dispatches said that he had been ''driv-
ing the enemy all day." but they were
growing In numbers. II can't fight so
many" he reported.
Finally orders reached Buford to fall
back near the river and cover the engi-
neers who were constructing the rail-
road bridge. He was instructed to look
to the infantry to hold what had been
gained. Lee moved all his force to
the river bank within two days.
Hostile Sioux Dispersed.
In July fifty years ago Minnesota
war volunteers took the field to punish
a tribe of the Sioux who were pillaging
and numbering in their state. One
year previous the Indians had commit
ted massacres in Minnesota settle
ments. but in 1868 their outrages took
the form of occasional murders of iso-
lated bands.
The sayages came over from Dakota
by stealing past the frontier guards In
small companies. They approached
within a few miles of st. Paul. As
the great body of Sioux were in Dako-
ia. General q. H. Sibley. who was in
immediate command in the northwest,
decided to cross the border and expel
them from his district The expedi-
tionary force comprised the First Min
nesota cavalry and the Sixth. Seventh
and Tenth infantry volunteers, with
the Third Minnesota battery.
The hostiles in the field numbered
about 1900. Their movements were
believed to be instigated by emissaries
IN Canada who wanted to make trou-
BILE for the United States. The Indians
were led by a son of Chief Little Grow,
a troublesome hostile who had recent
~ met his death at the hands OF a
white settler on Minnesota soil.
A cavalry column led by General
Alfred Sully. an experienced Indian
fighter. set out from Sioux City to
march up the Missouri river. By rap
i'd movements this body might get In
the rear of the Indians while Sibley
pressed them in front
Indian Treachery.
sibley's column overlook the saw
ages the last week In July at Big
Mound. Oak. A parley was offered. to
which tie f1ur1ffs assunred. Hs sU0n
as the whites entered the camp their
spokesman was shot dead. and Sibley
sent forward a battalion of cavalry
with two companies of the Seventh
regiment.
The Sioux were o driven from the
hill by the superior weapons of the
Minnesotans. Two days later the ex-
petition was encamped ten miles far
Their on, at Dead Buffalo lake. Late In
the day a band of mounted Sioux dash
ed up the grazing camp to cut loose
the animals. They were met and put
to fight by a charge of Sibley's cavalry.
After this failure the savages circled
the camp looking for a weak point to
attack. but finally retired without Of
fering battle.
The next day Sibley's column march
ed twenty miles on the trails taken by
the Indians. who seemed bent upon es-
cape. After a nights halt at Stony
Lake the column set out early for a
tedious uphill march. When the ad-
vance reached the top of the hill the
outlooks discovered a great body of
Indians, all on horseback and riding
along both tanks of the whites to hem
them In. A vigorous Smelling by the
battery, which cut down many hostiles,
cleared the way, and the column
marched on soon to find evidences of
precipltate flight on the part of the In
dams.
The camp of the ONE and children
Of the tribe lay not far ahead, and the
Indians saw that disaster to their fam
.