fore although the hills remove
We will not be afraid."

And the God, in whom they trusted, fulfilled his promises to them and
brought them all, in safety, to the Twin Cities. And as they passed the
boundary line of safety, every heart joined in the glad-song of praise
and thanksgiving, which went up to heaven. "Jehovah has triumphed, His
people are free," seemed to ring through the air.

Little Crow, the chieftain of the Kaposia Band was the acknowledged
leader of the Indian forces in this uprising. He was forty years of
age, possessed of considerable military ability; wise in council and
brave on the field of battle. He had wrought, in secret, with his
fellow-tribesmen, until he had succeeded in the formation of the
greatest combination of the Indians against the whites since the days
of Tecumseh and the Prophet in the Ohio country, fifty years before. He
had under his control a large force of Indian warriors armed with
Winchesters; and on the morning of the battle, he mustered on the hills
around New Ulm, the largest body of Indian cavalry ever gathered
together in America.

[Illustration: MINNEHAHA FALLS.]

[Illustration: PERILS BY THE HEATHEN
Missionaries fleeing from Indian massacre in 1862.

Thursday morning of that terrible week, after an all-night's rain,
found them all cold, wet through and utterly destitute of cooked food
and fuel. That noon they came to a clump of trees and camped down on
the wet prairies for the rest of the day. They killed a stray cow and
made some bread out of flour, salt and water. An artist, one of the
company, took the pictures here given.]

The whites arose in their might and, under the leadership of that
gallant general, Henry H. Sibley, gave battle to their savage foes.
Then followed weeks of fierce and bloody warfare. It was no child's
play. On the one side were arrayed the fierce warriors of the Sioux
nation, fighting for their ancestral homes, their ancient hunting
grounds, their deer-parks and the graves of their ancestors. "We
_must_ drive the white man east of the Mississippi," was the
declaration of Little Crow, and he added the savage boast; "We will
establish our winter-quarters in St. Paul and Minneapolis." Over
against them, were the brave pioneers of Minnesota, battling for the
existence of their beloved state, for their homes, and for the lives
and honor of their wives and daughters. The thrilling history of the
siege of New Ulm, of the battl