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[220] Latrobe's _The Rambler in North America_, Vol. II, p. 302.
[221] _Executive Doc.u.ments_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Doc.u.ment No. 9, pp. 37, 38; _Reports of Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Report No. 351, p. 148.
[222] Upham's _The Women and Children of Fort St. Anthony, later named Fort Snelling_ in _The Magazine of History_, Vol. XXI, p. 37.
[223] See below, the chapter ent.i.tled _Soldiers of the Cross_.
[224] This enumeration of the Indian villages is from Pond's _The Dakotas or Sioux in Minnesota as they were in 1834_ in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, pp. 320-330. The spelling of the names follows that used by Pond, although they were all written in many ways. The population figures are from Taliaferro's report in 1834, found in _Indian Office Files_, 1834, No. 203.
[225] See the description of an Indian village in Latrobe's _The Rambler in North America_, Vol. II, pp. 288, 289; also, Keating's _Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River_, Vol. I, pp. 342, 343.
CHAPTER VI
[226] On December 22, 1819, the House of Representatives pa.s.sed a resolution directing the Secretary of War, J. C. Calhoun, to prepare a system of martial law and field service. His report was communicated to the House on December 26, 1820, and was ent.i.tled _Systems of Martial Law, and Field Service, and Police_. It is composed of two parts, namely, _General Regulations for the Army_, and _A System of Martial Law_. It is from these regulations that the following sketch of the routine life at a military post is built up. The report is published in the _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, pp.
201-274.
[227] Ingersoll's _A History of the War Department of the United States_, pp. 205, 206.
[228] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 119.
[229] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, p. 210.
[230] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 95.
[231] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, p. 210.
[232] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, pp. 217, 218.
[233] These account books are in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society.
[234] Bishop's _Floral Home; or, First Years of Minnesota_, p. 161.
[235] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 22, 1831; _Post Returns_, March, 1840, in the archives of the War Department, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C.
[236] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 97.
[237] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 345.
[238] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, pp. 336, 344.
[239] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. III, pp. 341, 342; _Post Returns_, September, 1828, in the archives of the War Department, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C.
[240] _Taliaferro's Diary_, February 3, 1831.
[241] This report is published in _the American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. III, pp. 273-277.
[242] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, pp. 558, 706, Vol. III, p. 115.
[243] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 345.
[244] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. I, p. 476.
[245] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. III, pp. 341, 342.
[246] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. III, p. 277.
[247] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, p. 205; _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 101.
[248] Eastman's _Dahcotah; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling_, pp. 144, 145.
[249] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, p. 265.
[250] _Detroit Gazette_, February 18, 1820.
[251] Keating's _Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River_, Vol. I, p. 305.
[252] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, July 15, 1852.
[253] _Executive Doc.u.ments_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Doc.u.ment No. 9, p. 26; _Post Returns_, July, 1827, in the archives of the War Department, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C.
[254] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 340.
[255] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, p. 432.
[256] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 115.
[257] Joseph M. Street to Postmaster General Barry, April 27, 1831.--_Street Papers_, No. 15, Historical Department, Des Moines, Iowa.
[258] Williams's _A History of the City of Saint Paul_, p. 44.
[259] _Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin_, 1913, pp. 116, 117.
[260] _Taliaferro's Diary_, April 2, 5, 10, February 27, 1831.
[261] Street to Clark, March 10, 1831.--_William Clark Papers, Correspondence, 1830-1832_, p. 132; _Post Returns_, March, 1830. See also _Post Returns_, December, 1829, December, 1830, in the archives of the War Department, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C.
[262] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 342.
[263] _Reports of Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Report No. 351, p. 131.
[264] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 342.
[265] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 130. "Monsieur Tonson" was a very popular farce written by W. T. Moncrief in 1821. The French barber, Morbleu, is greatly troubled by a steady stream of visitors who come to make inquiries regarding a certain fict.i.tious Mr.
Thompson, hoping thereby to gain information regarding Adolphine de Courcy who has been traced to his door.--Walsh's _Heroes and Heroines of Fiction_, p. 360.
[266] _Taliaferro's Diary_, January 20, February 22, 1831.
[267] Snelling to Taliaferro, October 19, July 25, 1824.--_Taliaferro Letters_, Vol. I, Nos. 50, 56.
