[226] On December 22, 1819, the House of Representatives passed a
resolution directing the Secretary of War, J. C. Calhoun, to prepare a
system of martial law and field service. His report was communicated to
the House on December 26, 1820, and was entitled _Systems of Martial
Law, and Field Service, and Police_. It is composed of two parts,
namely, _General Regulations for the Army_, and _A System of Martial
Law_. It is from these regulations that the following sketch of the
routine life at a military post is built up. The report is
published in the _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, pp.
201-274.
[227] Ingersoll's _A History of the War Department of the United
States_, pp. 205, 206.
[228] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 119.
[229] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, p. 210.
[230] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 95.
[231] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, p. 210.
[232] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, pp. 217, 218.
[233] These account books are in the possession of the Minnesota
Historical Society.
[234] Bishop's _Floral Home; or, First Years of Minnesota_, p. 161.
[235] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 22, 1831; _Post Returns_, March, 1840,
in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C.
[236] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 97.
[237] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 345.
[238] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, pp. 336, 344.
[239] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. III, pp. 341, 342;
_Post Returns_, September, 1828, in the archives of the War Department,
Washington, D. C.
[240] _Taliaferro's Diary_, February 3, 1831.
[241] This report is published in _the American State Papers, Military
Affairs_, Vol. III, pp. 273-277.
[242] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, pp. 558, 706,
Vol. III, p. 115.
[243] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 345.
[244] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. I, p. 476.
[245] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. III, pp. 341, 342.
[246] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. III, p. 277.
[247] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, p. 205;
_Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 101.
[248] Eastman's _Dahcotah; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort
Snelling_, pp. 144, 145.
[249] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. II, p. 265.
[250] _Detroit Gazette_, February 18, 1820.
[251] Keating's _Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's
River_, Vol. I, p. 305.
[252] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, July 15, 1852.
[253] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII,
Document No. 9, p. 26; _Post Returns_, July, 1827, in the archives of
the War Department, Washington, D. C.
[254] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 340.
[255] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, p. 432.
[256] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 115.
[257] Joseph M. Street to Postmaster General Barry, April 27,
1831.--_Street Papers_, No. 15, Historical Department, Des Moines, Iowa.
[258] Williams's _A History of the City of Saint Paul_, p. 44.
[259] _Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin_, 1913,
pp. 116, 117.
[260] _Taliaferro's Diary_, April 2, 5, 10, February 27, 1831.
[261] Street to Clark, March 10, 1831.--_William Clark Papers,
Correspondence, 1830-1832_, p. 132; _Post Returns_, March, 1830. See
also _Post Returns_, December, 1829, December, 1830, in the archives of
the War Department, Washington, D. C.
[262] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 342.
[263] _Reports of Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II,
Report No. 351, p. 131.
[264] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 342.
[265] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 130. "Monsieur
Tonson" was a very popular farce written by W. T. Moncrief in 1821. The
French barber, Morbleu, is greatly troubled by a steady stream of
visitors who come to make inquiries regarding a certain fictitious Mr.
Thompson, hoping thereby to gain information regarding Adolphine de
Courcy who has been traced to his door.--Walsh's _Heroes and Heroines of
Fiction_, p. 360.
[266] _Taliaferro's Diary_, January 20, February 22, 1831.
[267] Snelling to Taliaferro, October 19, July 25, 1824.--_Taliaferro
Letters_, Vol. I, Nos. 50, 56.
[268] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, November 28, 1849.
[269] _Taliaferro's Diary_, February 10, 11, 24, 1831.
[270] George F. Turner to H. H. Sibley, February 11, 1842.--_Sibley
Papers, 1840-1850_.
[271] Taliaferro to Street, March 30, 1831.--_Street Papers_, No. 12.
[272] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 100.
[273] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 112.
[274] Neill's _The History of Minnesota_ (Fourth Edition), p. 920.
General Edmund P. Gaines inspected the post shortly afterwards and
reported: "From a conversation with the colonel, I can have no doubt
that he has erred in the course pursued by him in reference to some of
those controversies, inasmuch as he has intimated to his officers his
willingness to sanction, in certain cases, and even to participate in
_personal conflicts_, contrary to the twenty-fifth article of
war."--_American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. IV, p. 123.
[275] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 27, 1831.