[228] _Address of John N. Maxwell_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third
Series), Vol. III, p. 526.
[229] Hoover’s _Expedition to Spirit Lake_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_
(Webster City), August 20, 1857; _Address of Capt. Charles B.
Richards_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, pp. 510,
511.
[230] _A Paper by Michael Sweeney_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third
Series), Vol. III, p. 539; _The Narrative of W. K. Laughlin_ in the
_Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 542; Hoover’s
_Expedition to Spirit Lake_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City),
August 20, 1857.
[231] Duncombe’s _Spirit Lake Expedition_ in the _Annals of Iowa_
(Third Series), Vol. III, p. 496.
[232] _Address of Capt. Charles B. Richards_ in the _Annals of Iowa_
(Third Series), Vol. III, p. 510.
[233] Hoover’s _Expedition to Spirit Lake_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_
(Webster City), August 20, 1857. See also Duncombe’s _Spirit Lake
Expedition_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 496;
_Address of John N. Maxwell_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series),
Vol. III, p. 527; _A Paper by Michael Sweeney_ in the _Annals of Iowa_
(Third Series), Vol. III, p. 538.
[234] McKnight’s Point was on the West Fork of the Des Moines, on the
Fort Ridgely road, about two miles to the southeast of the mouth of
Bridge Creek.--See map in Parker’s _Iowa As It Is_, 1857.
[235] Hoover’s _The Tragedy of Okoboji_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third
Series), Vol. V, p. 17; Duncombe’s _Spirit Lake Expedition_ in the
_Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 497.
[236] _A Paper by Michael Sweeney_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third
Series), Vol. III, p. 539.
[237] _A Paper by Michael Sweeney_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third
Series), Vol. III, p. 539.
[238] For this incident see Duncombe’s _Spirit Lake Expedition_ in the
_Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, pp. 498, 499; Hoover’s _The
Tragedy of Okoboji_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. V,
pp. 17, 18.
[239] Duncombe’s _Spirit Lake Expedition_ in the _Annals of Iowa_
(Third Series), Vol. III, p. 499.
[240] Carpenter’s _The Spirit Lake Massacre_ in the _Midland Monthly_,
Vol. IV, p. 27.
[241] _Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers_, Vol. VI, pp. 929, 934.
[242] _The Narrative of W. K. Laughlin_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third
Series), Vol. III, p. 542.
[243] Duncombe’s _Spirit Lake Expedition_ in the _Annals of Iowa_
(Third Series), Vol. III, p. 500.
[244] For the enlistments of these individuals see the _Roster and
Record of Iowa Soldiers_, Vol. VI, pp. 924, 925, 926.
[245] In the _Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers_, Vol. VI, pp. 929
and 931, it is stated that Thatcher and Burtch enlisted either at Fort
Dodge on March twenty-third or at Shippey’s on March twenty-eighth.
The latter place and date seem far more probable than do the former.
[246] _A Paper by Michael Sweeney_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third
Series), Vol. III, p. 539; _The Narrative of W. K. Laughlin_ in the
_Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 542.
[247] _The Narrative of W. K. Laughlin_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third
Series), Vol. III, p. 542.