[68] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. III, p. 149; Van Cleve's _"Three Score Years and Ten," Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota_, p. 15. [69] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. III, pp. 149-153, 159. Mrs. Van Cleve says that a few days were spent on the shores of Lake Pepin.--Van Cleve's _"Three Score Years and Ten," Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota_, p. 16. Mrs. Ellet in her sketch of Mrs. Clark says a week was spent at this place.--Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, p. 350. [70] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. III, pp. 153, 154. Neill records that the troops did not reach the Minnesota River "until September".--Neill's _The History of Minnesota_ (Fourth Edition), p. 320. But in Appendix L., p. 891, he gives the same dates as Forsyth. In Folwell's _Minnesota_, p. 55, the statement is made that "the command arrived at Mendota August 23". As the main body of soldiers did not arrive until August 24th, this latter date should be taken as the birthday of Fort Snelling. [71] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. III, pp. 154-157; _Detroit Gazette_, October 22, 1819, February 18, 1820. [72] _Detroit Gazette_, February 18, 1820. [73] Van Cleve's _"Three Score Years and Ten," Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota_, pp. 18, 19. The baby was Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark who married General Horatio P. Van Cleve. In 1888 she published a book of reminiscences. It possesses all the merits and defects of a book of reminiscences--vividness of pictures--inaccuracy in regard to specific facts. [74] Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, p. 351; _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 48. [75] Mrs. Van Cleve, who received her information from her father, gives the number as forty.--Van Cleve's _"Three Score Years and Ten," Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota_, p. 19. James Doty, who kept the official journal of the Cass Expedition of 1820, and who received his information from the officers at Camp Cold Water, gives the number as forty.--_Wisconsin Historical Collections_, Vol. XIII, p. 214. Philander Prescott in his reminiscences states that "Some fifty or sixty had died, and some ten men died after I arrived".--_Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 478. L. Grignon wrote on April 3, 1820, that "They tell me that fifty Soldiers of the river St. Pierre have died of Scurvy".--_Wisconsin Historical Collections_, Vol. XX, p. 161.