Minnesota, the North Star StateFolwell, William Watts
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Minnesota, the North Star State
Folwell, William Watts
Minnesota -- History
Donnelly, Ignatius, antecedents, 170;
elected lieutenant-governor, 170;
reëlected lieutenant-governor, 177;
elected to Congress (1862), 248;
aspires to U. S. senatorship, 262;
attack on Representative E. B. Washburne, 262;
fails to receive nomination for U. S. senator, 264;
withdraws from senatorial contest, 297;
nominee for Congress (1878), 316;
contests W. D. Washburn’s election, 317;
turns to authorship, 318;
champions free school-books, 321.
Douglas, Stephen A., expedites Minnesota organic act, 89.
Douglass, Capt., engineer of Cass’s expedition, 71.
Draft, the, in Minnesota, 246.
Duluth, on Lake Superior, 16;
on Pigeon River, 17;
on Mille Lacs, (1679), 17;
at Point Douglass (1680), 19;
meets Accault’s party, 19.
Dunnell, Mark H., superintendent of public instruction, 256.
Dustin murders, 238.
East and west line, 139.
Edgerton, Gen. A. J., appointed state railroad commissioner, 280.
Eleventh Minnesota Infantry, raised, 247.
Emmegabowh, missionary, mentioned, 225.
Enabling act:
opposition to, 134;
passage of, 134;
land grants of, 134.
Execution of Sioux convicts, 231.
Expedition to upper Mississippi (1680), 18.
Farley, J. P., sues associates, 311.
Fifteenth Minnesota Volunteers, in Spanish War, 351.
Fifth Minnesota Infantry, raised, 185;
leaves three companies in Indian forts, 185;
at Corinth, 185;
at Nashville, 244.
Fillmore, Ex-President, mentioned, 121.
First Battery of Minnesota Light Artillery at Shiloh, 187.
First claim at St. Anthony’s Falls, 81.
First Minnesota Heavy Artillery, 247.
First Minnesota Infantry, called, 178;
mustered, 179;
enlists for three years, 179;
leaves for the South, 180;
at first Bull Run, 180;
at Antietam, 180;
charge at Gettysburg, 240.
First Minnesota Sharpshooters, mustered, 186;
merged into Second regiment of U. S. Sharpshooters, 186.
First white child in Minnesota, 56.
Fiscal year, 337.
Fish, Daniel, reviser of laws, 344.
Five million loan, story of, 156;
expunged, 173;
investigation of, 325;
efforts for settlement, 325;
redeemed, 331.
Flandrau, Charles Eugene, Sioux agent, causes pursuit of Inkpaduta,
146;
summoned by the people of New Ulm, 207;
marches to their relief, 208;
placed in command, 208, 209;
appointed colonel, 213.
Flour mill, first, in Minnesota, 56.
Flour, patent, 274.
Ford, John W., champions normal schools, 257.
Forsyth, Major, pays lower Sioux for the land bought by Pike, 57.
Fort Abercrombie, location, 190;
attacked, 224.
Fort Beauharnois, described, 26.
Fort Ridgely, location, 190;
description, 205;
first attack on, 206;
second attack on, 206;
relieved, 212.
Fort Ripley, garrisoned, 225.
Fort St. Anthony, changed to Fort Snelling, 56.
Fort St. Antoine, built by Perrot (1686), 22.
Fort Snelling, occupied (1822), 56.
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