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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
ywhere marked their footprints by horrible massacres. General Sibley, who had been sent in great haste to chastise the Indihis purpose. These forces were divided into two columns. Sibley, with the first, comprising about fifteen hundred foot-soler to the right bank of the river. On the 26th of June, Sibley's column reached the borders of Lake Traverse on the westereated toward the Missouri at the approach of the troops. Sibley, discovering the tracks of this retreat, had started to puhe crest of a hill called Big Mound. At the sight of them Sibley had the train parked, and, dividing his forces into two co only were fired on the banks of the Missouri, after which Sibley started to march eastward. He could not pursue the Indianota; the loss of the Federals amounted to only six men. Sibley was very far out in his reckoning when he expected to meetthat the Indians had recrossed the river immediately after Sibley's retreat, so as to re-enter their hunting-grounds, he lef