[Illustration] NARRATIVE OF MY CAPTIVITY AMONG THE SIOUX INDIANS. BY FANNY KELLY. WITH A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF GENERAL SULLY’S INDIAN EXPEDITION IN 1864, BEARING UPON EVENTS OCCURRING IN MY CAPTIVITY. CINCINNATI: WILSTACH, BALDWIN & CO., PRINTERS, NO. 143 RACE STREET, 1871. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by FANNY KELLY, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. STEREOTYPED AT THE FRANKLIN TYPE FOUNDRY, CINCINNATI. _DEDICATION._ TO THE Officers and Soldiers of the Eleventh Ohio Cavalry, FOR THEIR PERSISTENT AND DARING EFFORTS TO AID MY HUSBAND IN EFFECTING MY RESCUE; AND TO THE Officers and Soldiers of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry, FOR KINDNESS SHOWN ME AFTER MY RANSOM AND RETURN TO FORT SULLY, THIS NARRATIVE IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. INTRODUCTORY. The summer of 1864 marked a period of unusual peril to the daring pioneers seeking homes in the far West. Following upon the horrible massacres in Minnesota in 1862, and the subsequent chastisements inflicted by the expeditions under Generals Sully and Sibley in 1863, whereby the Indians were driven from the then western borders of civilization, in Iowa, Minnesota, and the white settlements of Dakota, in the Missouri Valley, the great emigrant trails to Idaho and Montana became the scene of fresh outrages; and, from the wild, almost inaccessible nature of the country, pursuit and punishment were impossible. I was a member of a small company of emigrants, who were attacked by an overwhelming force of hostile Sioux, which resulted in the death of a large proportion of the party, in my own capture, and a horrible captivity of five months’ duration. Of my thrilling adventures and experience during this season of terror and privation, I propose to give a plain, unvarnished narrative, hoping the reader will be more interested in facts concerning the habits, manners, and customs of the Indians, and their treatment of prisoners, than in theoretical speculations and fine-wrought sentences.