Chapter IV
Quoted in Williams’s A History of the City of Saint Paul, pp. 58, 59. 145
In the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VIII, pp. 430, 431, there is a list of the commanding officers from September, 1819 to May, 1858. 146
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. 147
American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 777. 148
Ellet’s Pioneer Women of the West, pp. 310–323, contains a sketch of the activities of Captain Snelling during the war. 149
Ellet’s Pioneer Women of the West, pp. 313, 314. 150
Ellet’s Pioneer Women of the West, p. 316. 151
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. 152
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. 153
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. 154
The Works of Daniel Webster, Vol. V, p. 410. 155
Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VIII, pp. 440, 441. 156
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. 157
Senate Documents, 1st Session, 30th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, p. 367. 158
There is a sketch of Martin Scott in the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. III, pp. 180–187, from which this story is taken. 159
Powell’s List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from 1779 to 1900, p. 577. 160
Niles’ Register, Vol. 73, p. 130. 161
The frontispiece of Mrs. Eastman’s Dahcotah; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling was painted by Captain Eastman. 162
Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. II, p. 292. 163
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. 164
Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. II, p. 292. 165
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. 166
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. VIII, pp. 89, 90. 167
Rhodes’s History of the United States, Vol. IV, p. 328. 168
The American Annual Cyclopaedia, 1863, p. 816. 169
Bancroft’s History of Oregon, Vol. II, pp. 611, 612. For the career of General Canby see Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. I, pp. 517, 518. 170
This incident is taken from Folsom’s Fifty Years in the Northwest, pp. 755, 756. Mr. Folsom says he took it “from a St. Paul paper of 1887”. 171
For the Dred Scott case see McMaster’s A History of the People of the United States, Vol. VIII, pp. 278, 279. 172
United States Statutes at Large, Vol. I, p. 50. 173
United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 564. 174
United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, pp. 729–739. 175
United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IX, p. 395. 176
Quoted from the complaint of the agent, Nathaniel McLean, September 25, 1850, in Senate Documents, 2nd Session, 31st Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, p. 106. 177
Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro in the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 249. 178
Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro in the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, pp. 253, 254. 179
Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 353. 180
Taliaferro to Crawford, July 15, 1839.—Indian Office Files, 1839, No. 512. 181
These papers are in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society. The dates covered in these diaries are from December, 1830, to June, 1831; May 25 to September 21, 1833; May 23 to August 28, 1834. 182
These letters are in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society. In Volume I of these letters is the following notice: “These 326 letters, are part of the great mass of correspondence received by Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro, Indian Agent at Fort Snelling, 1819–1840. They constitute but a small part of his accumulations in twenty years. The rest were burned in his house at Bedford, Pa., in 18__. It was a great loss to us, as, had they been spared, we would have received all of them. But even these 326 contain a large amount of valuable material for Minnesota history. Even as autographs they are valuable, [see autobiography of Taliaferro, Vol. 6, Coll.] These letters were given by Maj. T. in March, 1868. Arranged, bound and indexed (by J. F. W.) 1891.” 183
Photostatic copies of many of these letters were taken and are to be found in the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society, where they were consulted. 184
These letter books are now in the possession of the Kansas State Historical Society at Topeka, where they were consulted. The only volume containing letters from Major Taliaferro is referred to as the William Clark Papers, Correspondence, 1830–1832. 185
Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro in the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 253. 186
Powell’s List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from 1779 to 1900, p. 620. In the Taliaferro Letters are many letters from William Clark and Elbert Herring in which they address Mr. Taliaferro as “major”. 187
Taliaferro Letters, Vol. I, No. 11. A note on this letter gives these dates. 188
Nowhere is the date of his arrival at Fort Snelling given. In his autobiography he writes of his journey: “Jean Baptiste Faribault and family, had gone through by land, in charge of Colonel Leavenworth’s horses and cows”.—Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 198. It was in the spring of 1820 that Faribault performed this service.—Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. II, p. 103. 189
Clark to the Secretary of War, August 20, 1832.—Indian Office Files, 1832, No. 285. For his resignation see Indian Office Files, 1824, No. 39. 190
Taliaferro’s Diary, March 24, 1831. 191
Taliaferro to Crawford, December 12, 1839.—Indian Office Files, 1839, No. 516. 192
Neill’s The History of Minnesota (Fourth Edition), pp. 337–339. 193
In the report for 1850 the agency at St. Peter’s is designated a “Sub-Agency”.—Senate Documents, 2nd Session, 31st Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, p. 103. 194
Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. XII, pp. 339, 340. 195
Indian Office Files, 1834, No. 213, 1827, No. 54, 1843, No. 222. 196
Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. XII, p. 341. 197