In writing of the attack of scurvy Mr. H. H. Sibley remarks: "It was doubtless caused by the bad quality of the provisions, especially of the pork, which was spoiled by the villany of the contractors, or their agents, in drawing the brine from the barrels that contained it, after leaving St. Louis, in order to lighten the load, and causing the barrels to be refilled with river water, before their delivery at the post, to avoid detection. The troops were compelled to live on this unwholesome fare for two successive seasons, before the fraud was discovered."--_Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. I, pp. 473, 474. Nowhere else is this explanation given. Sickness could easily come at a frontier post without such villainy. During the same winter at Camp Missouri over half of the garrison of seven hundred men were sick, and nearly one hundred of them died. At Council Bluff there was also a great deal of sickness.--_Detroit Gazette_, July 21, September 1, 1820. [76] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. I, p. 473. [77] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 103. [78] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, pp. 478, 479. [79] _Reports of Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Report No. 351, p. 136. [80] These facts are from the reminiscences of Philander Prescott in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, pp. 478, 479. [81] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 105. [82] Snelling to Taliaferro, November 7, 1821.--_Taliaferro Letters_, Vol. I, No. 30. [83] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 107. Mrs. Van Cleve states that the fort was occupied in the fall of 1821.--Van Cleve's _"Three Score Years and Ten," Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota_, p. 32. [84] _Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 153. [85] Schoolcraft's _Narrative Journal of Travels from Detroit Northwest through the Great Chain of American Lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River_, pp. 292-315. The official journal was kept by James Doty. The time spent with Leavenworth's troops is described in the _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, Vol. XIII, pp. 212-216. [86] Captain Kearny's journal is printed in the _Missouri Historical Society Collections_, Vol. III, pp. 8-29, 99-131. Pages 104-110 are devoted to the time spent at Camp Cold Water. [87] These facts regarding the change of the name are taken from Upham's _The Women and Children of Fort St. Anthony, Later named Fort Snelling_ in the _Magazine of History_, Vol. XXI, pp. 38, 39. Dr. Upham received his information from a letter from the Adjutant General of the United States. CHAPTER III [88] See Miss Gallaher's article on _The Military-Indian Frontier 1830-1835_ in _The Iowa Journal of History and Politics_, Vol. XV, pp. 393-428. [89] Langham to Taliaferro, August 19, 1820.--_Taliaferro Letters_, Vol. I, No. 62. [90] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 117. [91] Neill's _The History of Minnesota_ (Fourth Edition), p. 901.