Mary and I: Forty Years with the SiouxRiggs, Stephen Return
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Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux
Riggs, Stephen Return
Dakota Indians -- Missions; Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883
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 171
CHAPTER XII.
1862.--General Sibley's Expedition.--I Go as Chaplain.--At Fort
Ridgely.--The Burial Party.--Birch Coolie Defeat.--Simon and
Lorenzo Bring in Captives.--March to Yellow Medicine.--Battle of
Wood Lake.--Indians Flee.--Camp Release.--A Hundred Captives
Rescued.--Amos W. Huggins Killed.--We Send for His Wife and
Children.--Spirit Walker Has Protected Them.--Martha's Letter
188
CHAPTER XIII.
1862-1863.--Military Commission.--Excited Community.--Dakotas
Condemned.--Moving Camp.--The Campaign Closed.--Findings Sent to
the President.--Reaching My Home in St. Anthony.--Distributing
Alms on the Frontier.--Recalled to Mankato.--The
Executions.--Thirty-eight Hanged.--Difficulty of Avoiding
Mistakes.--Round Wind.--Confessions.--The Next Sabbath's
Service.--Dr. Williamson's Work.--Learning to Read.--The
Spiritual Awakening.--The Way It Came.--Mr. Pond Invited
Up.--Baptisms in the Prison.--The Lord's Supper.--The Camp at
Snelling.--A Like Work of Grace.--John P. Williamson.--Scenes in
the Garret.--One Hundred Adults Baptized.--Marvelous in Our Eyes
206
CHAPTER XIV.
1863-1866.--The Dakota Prisoners Taken to Davenport.--Camp
McClellan.--Their Treatment.--Great Mortality.--Education in
Prison.--Worship.--Church Matters.--The Camp at Snelling Removed
to Crow Creek.--John P. Williamson's Story.--Many Die.--Scouts'
Camp.--Visits to Them.--Family Threads.--Revising the New
Testament.--Educating Our Children.--Removal to Beloit.--Family
Matters.--Little Six and Medicine Bottle.--With the Prisoners at
Davenport 220
CHAPTER XV.
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