The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1916-07-27
FIRST REUNION IN
FFTY-0NE YEARS
ECHO OF WHITESTONE
BATTLE IN 1862
PASS RESOLUTIONS EXTENDING VOTE
OF THANKS TO THOSE WHO HAD
MADE MONUMENT POSSIBLE

The Times received this week a |
communication from M. ]. Fcenan,
Late Sergeant Company M. Sixth
Iowa Cavalry, and dated Omaha,
Neb., July IS, 1916. In his letter
to The Times, he says in parts
"The enclosed preamble and reso-
lutions speak for themselves, and
only in small way can express
the gratitude the Sixth Iowa Cav
airy have for you grand people of
Dickey county for showing to the
coming generations the achieve.
ments of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry,
where we will live in history
Headquarters Sixth Iowa Cav
airy in Reunion, Marshalltown,
Iowa, June 20, 1916.
"Whereas, The Sixth Iowa Cav
airy having met in reunion for the
first time since "mustcr-out" in
October. 1865. fifty-one years ago.
"Whereas, The Sixth Iowa Cav
airy were recruited as other Iowa
troops in the fall of 1862 to go
south and help defend the union of
the states.
"Whereas, different bands of
Sioux Indians living on the gov
ernment reservation agencies, and
other tribes of Sioux not on the
agencies, on the Minnesota river in
Minnesota broke out in hostilities
on August 18. 1862. and in ten
DAYS had massacred the whites liv-
ing in New Ulm, Minnesota. and
Spirit Lake, Iowa. along the bor-
der of those states for two hundred
miles and back for twenty miles.
where. it is estimated. there were
one thousand persons scalpcd.
buildings and homes burned. stock
stolen and killed. which would run.
into the thousands of dollars. The
worst Indian outbreak in the his
tory of this country.
"Whereas, The secretary of war
assigned the Sixth Iowa Cavalry
to General Alfred Sully's com-
mand to protect the frontier from
the raids of those hostiles and
punish the Indians.
Whereas, The Sixth Iowa Cav
airy fought those same Indians un-
der Little Crow \at the Battle OF
Whitestone Hill, September 8.
1862, killing estimated two or three
hundred, taking two hundred and
fifty prisoners and completely
routing and scattering them with a
loss of twenty-five killed and many
wounded, who afterwards died.
Whereas, The Sixth Iowa Cav
airy having learned that beauti-.
full soldiers monument made Of
granite stands on the battlefield OF
Whitestone, Dickey County, North
Dakota. to commemorate the
achievements of the Sixth Iowa
Cavalry and placing this regiment
to Give in history"
Therefore. Be 1t Resolved. That
the thanks of the Sixth Iowa Cav
alrv be extended to the Whitestonc
Hill Battlefield Commissioners,
Comrades E. r. Kennedy. H. +.
Eaton, Theo. Northrop, who had
this work in charge; to Ex-Con-
gressman Thos. F. Marshall OF
North Dakota. who had the secre-
tary of the interior keep from en-
try the section of land where the
battle was fought; six hundred
acres of which was to be sold to-
wards the purchase of the monu-
inent and care of the forty acres
where the monument stands, which
was to be a park under govern
ment care; to Governor Burke and
the legislature OF 1909 for passing
this Act, creating the Whitestonc
Hill Battlefield Commission and
to the editor of The Oakes Times,
and the good people of Dickcy
ounty, North Dakota, who did 50
much in this matter, the Six th
Iowa Cavalry feels deeply CRATE
full"