The adventures of "Antelope Bill" in the Indian war of 1862 (1898) (14595225748)

Identifier: adventuresofante00peir (find matches)
Title: The adventures of "Antelope Bill" in the Indian war of 1862
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Peirce, Parker I
Subjects: Dakota Indians
Publisher: (Marshall? Minn.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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Execution of 38 Sioux Indiansat Pankato, JWinn. On Monday afternoon Col. Miller address-ed the prisoners as follows: <kTbe commanding officer of this placehas called to speak to you on a very serious*subject this afternoon. Your Great Father atWashington after carefully reading what yourwitnesses have testified in your several trials _ 185 — have come to the conclusion tLat you have eachbeen guilty of wickedly and wantonly murder-ing his Avhite children; and for this reason hehas directed that you each be hanged by theneck until you are dead on next Friday, andthat order will be carried into effect that day
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at 10 oclock in the forenoon. Good ministers, both Catholic and Protes-tant are here from among whom each of youcaik select your spiritual adviser, who will bepermitted to commune constantly with youduring the four days you are yet to live. The colonel then instructed Adjt. Arnold — 186 — to read to them in English the Liter of Presi*dent Lincoln which in substance ordered that38 prisoners whose names are i;iven, shall beexecuted at the time above stated. Rev. Mr.Riggs then read the letter in the Dakota lan-guage. The colonel further instructed Mi\Riggs to tell them that they had sinned soagainst their fellow man that there is no hopefor clemency except in the mercy of God,through the m rits of thj Blessed Redeemer,aad that he earnestly exhorted them to applyto that as their only remaining source of conso-lation. The occasion was one of much solemnityto the persons present, though but very littleemotion was manifested bj the Indians. Ahalf-breed named Millcrd seemed much de-presse