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What Mr. Gilfillan's Book Has to Say ot the Attack and the Fight.

When, on the evening of Septem­ber 1st, the advance oi' the Indians reached Little Crow's village, on south side of the Minnesota, they saw on the north side, cut on the prairie, sOtne miles away, Capt. An­derson's company marching frcm Beaver creek eastward toward the Birch Coulie. They also saw in the village signs that white men had been there only a few hour$ before, and from the trail made when they left, concluded that these were the men they could see to the north­ward. Some of the best scouts were soon sent across the vailev to follow the movements of the mounted men, "creeping across the prairie like so

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eupied the Birch Coulie, east of the camp. Some of the Mankato war­riors were in the coulie and some in the swale to the south. Big Eagle's band was chiefly behind and about the knoll to the west, aud Gray Bird's was in the ravine and on the prairie to the north. Big Eagle says that while they were waiting to begin the attack during the night, some of the warriors crawled through the prairie grass unobserved to within fifty feet of the sentinels, aud it was seriously proposed to shoot them with ar­rows.—making no noise-^andv-'.-to-rash the camp in the darkness.

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and black and sheltering, the Indi­ans crossed the river and valley, went up the bluffs and on the prair­ie and soon saw the camp or corral of the whites. Cautiously and war­ily they approached the camp and had no difficulty in surrounding it, for the sentinels were at such short distance from it—not more than a hundred vards or so. The ground

of the horses with lifted headSiWere staring intently toward the west, and manifesting indications of un­easiness. Some fugitive cattle which had been gathered' up and driven along with the command and which had been lying down south of the corral rose up one'after another and began to move slowly towards the corrar, as if retreating from danger. The cook had quietly awakened his captain and was talk­ing to him of what he had seen when the alarm was given.

Sentinel William L. Hart of An­derson's company. was on duty on the post between the eastern bor­der of the corral and Birch Coulte. He was in conversation with Rich­ard Gibbons, a comrade in his com-

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tally wounded, but Hart ran to the corral unhurt and/fought through the battle, living to become an officer in the police force of St. Paul, where he died in 1896.- ;

About 9 o'clock in the first day's attack the pickets of Fort Ridgley sent in word that they could hear the report of guns in the distance to the northwest. Investigation made it certain that there was a battle in progress between Maj. Brown's command and the Indians. Col. Sibley at once sent a reinforcement. He dispatched Col. Sam'l McPhail, of a newly organized militia com­mand called the Mounted Rangers, with 50 mounted men under the im mediate commands of Capt. J. R. Sfcerrett and Capt. C. S. Potter, three companies of the Sixth Regi­ment of Infantry— B, D. and E— under Capt. O. C. Merriman, J. C. "Whitney, and Rudolph Schoene-mann, and two small cannon under Capt. Mark Hendricks. ^v ;r?s.

The infantry and artillery "were under the direct command ^ Maj. R. N. McLaren, with Col. McPhail, an old regular soldier and experi­enced Indian fighter, in command of the whole.. In his report. Col. Sibley says the whole force uuav» bered 2-iO men.

The expedition made a forced march to near the Birch Coulie, over the Abercrombie road, guided by the sound of c-outiuuous firing. On neafing the coulie a large force of Indians appeared to the left or south ot the advance. A demon­stration was made against them by Capt. Merriman's company and they fell back. The command moved forward half a mile when a very strong line of Indians was seen di­rectly in front and on the left flank. Col. McPhail halted and prepared to fight. Two scouts of Capt. Pot­ter's mounted company were sent forward, but soon had their horses shot under them and were chased ! back to the column.

The Indians were advancing and had well nigh surrounded the com­mand, when Capt. Hendricks opened on them with his artillery and drove them back. Col. McPhail '"did not deem it prudent to ad­vance further," and sending two messengers, Lieut. T. J. Sheehan and Wm. L. Quinn, to Col. Sibley with a report of the situation, he moved his force to a commanding position about two miles east of the coulie, • where he formed a strong camp, throwing up some rifle pits, and awaited the arrival of the Colo­nel with the general command from Fort Ridgelv. •

As soon as McPhail's messengers, who rode swiftly, reached him, Col. Sibley formed his 'men under arms, and at once marched to the relief of the now new imperiled commands. He marched during the night, joined Col. McPhail in the forenoon of Sept. 3, moved against the Indians and by noon, without any more serious fighting, they had all been driven away from their positions about the coulie. Recrossing the Minnesota, they speedily fell back aga(in to the Yel­low Medicine. Col. Sibley returned 60 Fort Ridgely.

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PRESENT VIEW OF THE BIRCH COULIE BATTLEFIELD.

The new is looking south. The cross marks the site of the corraL

was most excellent for a mere camp­ing ground, but badly chosen for a battle field. On the east was the Birch Coulie with a high bluff bank and fringed with timber: on the north was a smaller coulie or ravine running into the main coulie: on the south was a swale much lower than the camp; on the west was a considerable mound and all these positions were commanding and within gun shot of the corral. The Indians could fire from concealed and protected situations, and near- j had given the signal, ly all of them had double barreled i came a deadly roar from

piny. The dawn was coining faints ly from the east when, looking in that direction across the Birch Coulie, Hart saw what he at first thought were two calves galloping through the tall grass of the prairie toward the coulie. In another mo­ment he saw that the object were two Indians skulking along as fast as they could run and trailing their guns at their sides. "They are In­dians.cried Hart to bis compan­ions and instantly fired. As if he

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of Indian guns all about the camp, and the battle had begun. In the rain . of bullets Gibbons was mar-.4

It is difficult now on any North­ern lake to find a family of mallards. The various groups have drawn to­gether, forming flocks. That is an­other proof, if any were needed, that the chill nights are on us and winter is drawing steadily nearer.

The mallards preserve their fam­ily formation until the last days of August. The flocking begins when the young ones are large enough and wise enough to resent maternal control. The birds get accustomed to one another before the Southern migration and they flock together un­til the next season 's mating, though the chances are that not more than two-thirds of any one flock will sur­vive. > •

Either the mallard is born wise or the parent bird teaches it early and effectively. Men shooting now in the ricebeds of the North Woods find the young birds as wary and almost as expert in detecting lures as those of three years' experience. The quickness with which they learn that man is their enemy and the readiness of their reccgn tion of the fact that a shotgun is un-healthful for them is remarkable.

Let any man go of a September evening to a ricebed that is half a mile square and the sleeping place

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