[233] Hoover’s _Expedition to Spirit Lake_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), August 20, 1857. See also Duncombe’s _Spirit Lake Expedition_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 496; _Address of John N. Maxwell_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 527; _A Paper by Michael Sweeney_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 538. [234] McKnight’s Point was on the West Fork of the Des Moines, on the Fort Ridgely road, about two miles to the southeast of the mouth of Bridge Creek.--See map in Parker’s _Iowa As It Is_, 1857. [235] Hoover’s _The Tragedy of Okoboji_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. V, p. 17; Duncombe’s _Spirit Lake Expedition_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 497. [236] _A Paper by Michael Sweeney_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 539. [237] _A Paper by Michael Sweeney_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 539. [238] For this incident see Duncombe’s _Spirit Lake Expedition_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, pp. 498, 499; Hoover’s _The Tragedy of Okoboji_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. V, pp. 17, 18. [239] Duncombe’s _Spirit Lake Expedition_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 499. [240] Carpenter’s _The Spirit Lake Massacre_ in the _Midland Monthly_, Vol. IV, p. 27. [241] _Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers_, Vol. VI, pp. 929, 934. [242] _The Narrative of W. K. Laughlin_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 542. [243] Duncombe’s _Spirit Lake Expedition_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 500. [244] For the enlistments of these individuals see the _Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers_, Vol. VI, pp. 924, 925, 926. [245] In the _Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers_, Vol. VI, pp. 929 and 931, it is stated that Thatcher and Burtch enlisted either at Fort Dodge on March twenty-third or at Shippey’s on March twenty-eighth. The latter place and date seem far more probable than do the former. [246] _A Paper by Michael Sweeney_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 539; _The Narrative of W. K. Laughlin_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 542. [247] _The Narrative of W. K. Laughlin_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 542. CHAPTER XXIII [248] _Address of John N. Maxwell_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 527. [249] Carpenter’s _The Spirit Lake Expedition_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 483. [250] Carpenter’s _The Spirit Lake Expedition_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 500; _Address of John N. Maxwell_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 527; _The Narrative of W. K. Laughlin_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 542.