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.