Ever since the removal of the Lower Indians up to their reservation, there had been several members of Dr. Williamson's church at Kaposia, living near the Red Wood Agency. They would form a very good nucleus of a church, and make a good beginning for a new station. This had been in our thought for several years, but only when, in 1861, John P. Williamson finished his theological studies at Lane Seminary, had we the ability to take possession of that part of the field. While we waited, Bishop Whipple came up and opened a mission, placing there S. D. Hinman. Still, it was thought advisable to carry out our original plan, and, accordingly, young Mr. Williamson took up his abode there, organized a church of ten or twelve members, and proceeded to erect a chapel. In the last days of the year 1861, I went down, by invitation, to assist in the dedication of the new church. That journey, both going and returning, was my sorest experience of winter travel, but it helped to start forward this new church organization, which was commencing very auspiciously. Mr. Williamson had his arrangements all made to erect a dwelling-house early in the next season. And when the outbreak took place in August, 1862, as Providence would have it, he had gone to Ohio, as we all supposed, to consummate an engagement which he had made while in the seminary. CHAPTER XI. 1861-1862.--Republican Administration.--Its Mistakes.--Changing Annuities.--Results.--Returning from General Assembly.--A Marriage in St. Paul.--D. Wilson Moore and Wife.--Delayed Payment.--Difficulty with the Sissetons.--Peace Again.--Recruiting for the Southern War.--Seventeenth of August, 1862.--The Outbreak.--Remembering Christ's Death.--Massacres Commenced.--Capt. Marsh's Company.--Our Flight.--Reasons Therefor.--Escape to an Island.--Final Leaving.--A Wounded Man.--Traveling on the Prairie.--Wet Night.--Taking a Picture.--Change of Plan.--Night Travel.--Going Around Fort Ridgely.--Night Scares.--Safe Passage.--Four Men Killed.--The Lord Leads Us.--Sabbath.--Reaching the Settlements.--Mary at St. Anthony.