[195] For somewhat varying accounts of the attack upon the Thomas cabin see Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 30, 1857; Carpenter’s _The Spirit Lake Massacre_ in the _Midland Monthly_, Vol. IV, pp. 23-25; Gue’s _History of Iowa_, Vol. I, pp. 304, 305; Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), pp. 94-99; Hughes’s _Causes and Results of the Inkpaduta Massacre_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. XII, pp. 275, 276; Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, pp. 229, 230; _The Spirit Lake Massacre and Relief Expedition_ in the _Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers_, Vol. VI, pp. 898, 899. [196] Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 230. [197] For the attack upon the Wood brothers see Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 230; Hughes’s _Causes and Results of the Inkpaduta Massacre_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. XII, p. 275; Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), pp. 99, 100. [198] Report of Captain Barnard E. Bee in _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. II, p. 147. [199] All of the particulars of the events which happened at the Stewart home we owe to the relation of Johnny. He was later adopted into the home of Major William Williams at Fort Dodge and in 1915 was living in Byron, Minnesota, and at that time was one of the four living survivors of the raid. Read accounts in Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, pp. 230, 231; Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 30, 1857; Gue’s _History of Iowa_, Vol. I, p. 305; Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), pp. 100, 101. [200] Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 232; Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), p. 107. [201] Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), pp. 148, 149. For Mrs. Marble’s impressions see an article from the _St. Paul Pioneer_, May 31, 1857, republished in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 13, 1857. CHAPTER XIX [202] Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 30, 1857; Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), pp. 102-104. [203] Charles Aldrich in an address at the unveiling of a commemorative tablet in the Hamilton County Court House in Webster City, Iowa, on August 12, 1887, states that they started about midnight. It does not seem, however, that such a late hour could have been possible under the circumstances.--See the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 548. [204] Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 30, 1857.