[142] _Congressional Globe_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Pt. III, p.
2618.
[143] Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VIII, p. 431.
[144] For papers relating to the readjustment see _Executive Documents_,
3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9.
CHAPTER IV
[145] Quoted in Williams's _A History of the City of Saint Paul_, pp.
58, 59.
[146] In the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, pp. 430,
431, there is a list of the commanding officers from September, 1819 to
May, 1858.
[147] For the life of Henry Leavenworth see the _Kansas Historical
Collections_, Vol. VII, pp. 577, 578, Vol. IX, p. 569, Vol. XI, p. xxi;
Powell's _List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from 1779
to 1900_, p. 428; Chittenden's _The History of the American Fur Trade of
the Far West_, Vol. II, pp. 630-632; Leavenworth's _A Genealogy of the
Leavenworth Family in the United States_, pp. 150-154.
[148] _American State Papers, Indian Affairs_, Vol. I, p. 777.
[149] Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, pp. 310-323, contains a
sketch of the activities of Captain Snelling during the war.
[150] Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, pp. 313, 314.
[151] Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, p. 316.
[152] From the reminiscences of Mrs. Ann Adams in the _Minnesota
Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, pp. 96, 97. Mrs. Adams, as a child,
lived several years in the Snelling household.
[153] Powell's _List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from
1779 to 1900_, p. 599; Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, p. 334.
[154] From a manuscript entitled "Remarks on General Wm. Hull's Memoirs
of the Campaign of the Northwestern Army, 1812", by Josiah
Snelling.--_Draper Collection_, 8 U. 114, pp. 42, 43.
[155] _The Works of Daniel Webster_, Vol. V, p. 410.
[156] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, pp. 440, 441.
[157] See the sketch of Captain Scott in Van Cleve's _"Three Score Years
and Ten," Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota_, pp. 28, 29.
[158] _Senate Documents_, 1st Session, 30th Congress, Vol. I, Document
No. 1, p. 367.
[159] There is a sketch of Martin Scott in the _Minnesota Historical
Collections_, Vol. III, pp. 180-187, from which this story is taken.
[160] Powell's _List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from
1779 to 1900_, p. 577.
[161] _Niles' Register_, Vol. 73, p. 130.
[162] The frontispiece of Mrs. Eastman's _Dahcotah; or, Life and Legends
of the Sioux around Fort Snelling_ was painted by Captain Eastman.
[163] Appletons' _Cyclopaedia of American Biography_, Vol. II, p. 292.
[164] In his notes to _Hiawatha_ Longfellow quotes from the introduction
of Mrs. Eastman's book, p. ii.--_Longfellow's Complete Poetical Works_
(Cambridge Edition), p. 666.
[165] Appletons' _Cyclopaedia of American Biography_, Vol. II, p. 292.
[166] Powell's _List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from
1779 to 1900_, p. 449; _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, p.
441.
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