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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 2 0 Browse Search
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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)
y were meditating that of Minnesota, they had established their camps near the frontier. Encumbered by the train they were dragging after them, they had not been able to cope in speed with the enemy, and had decided upon fighting, so that the long column of little horses which carried the women and children, the skin tents, provisions, utensils of all kinds, forming their scanty households, might have time to get ahead. They were lying in wait for the whites on the crest of a hill called Big Mound. At the sight of them Sibley had the train parked, and, dividing his forces into two columns, advanced upon them. In spite of the inferiority of their weapons, the savages resisted with courage, but the fire of the rifles, and especially of the howitzer, soon compelled them to retreat. The Federals found the Indian camp abandoned; they were, however, obliged to take one day's rest, granting thereby a precious boon to the enemy, who availed himself of it to push rapidly forward in a sout