, Vol. II,
Report No. 351, pp. 10-12.
[138] _Congressional Globe_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Pt. III, p.
2595.
[139] For the sale of Fort Snelling see Dr. Folwell's paper on _The Sale
of Fort Snelling_, 1857, in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol.
XV, pp. 393-410.
[140] The report of the committee may be found in _Reports of
Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Report No. 351.
[141] _Congressional Globe_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Pt. III, p.
2614.
[142] _Congressional Globe_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Pt. III, p.
2618.
[143] Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VIII, p. 431.
[144] For papers relating to the readjustment see _Executive Documents_,
3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9.
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[145] Quoted in Williams's _A History of the City of Saint Paul_, pp.
58, 59.
[146] In the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, pp. 430,
431, there is a list of the commanding officers from September, 1819 to
May, 1858.
[147] For the life of Henry Leavenworth see the _Kansas Historical
Collections_, Vol. VII, pp. 577, 578, Vol. IX, p. 569, Vol. XI, p. xxi;
Powell's _List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from 1779
to 1900_, p. 428; Chittenden's _The History of the American Fur Trade of
the Far West_, Vol. II, pp. 630-632; Leavenworth's _A Genealogy of the
Leavenworth Family in the United States_, pp. 150-154.
[148] _American State Papers, Indian Affairs_, Vol. I, p. 777.
[149] Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, pp. 310-323, contains a
sketch of the activities of Captain Snelling during the war.
[150] Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, pp. 313, 314.
[151] Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, p. 316.
[152] From the reminiscences of Mrs. Ann Adams in the _Minnesota
Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, pp. 96, 97. Mrs. Adams, as a child,
lived several years in the Snelling household.
[153] Powell's _List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from
1779 to 1900_, p. 599; Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, p. 334.
[154] From a manuscript entitled "Remarks on General Wm. Hull's Memoirs
of the Campaign of the Northwestern Army, 1812", by Josiah
Snelling.--_Draper Collection_, 8 U. 114, pp. 42, 43.
[155] _The Works of Daniel Webster_, Vol. V, p. 410.
[156] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, pp. 440, 441.
[157] See the sketch of Captain Scott in Van Cleve's _"Three Score Years
and Ten," Life-Long Mem
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