e of Birch Coullie, of Fort Ridgely and
Fort Abercrombie, and of other scenes of conflict is written in the
mingled blood of the white man, and of the red man on the beautiful
plains of western Minnesota. The inevitable result ensued. The Sioux
were defeated, large numbers were slain in battle or captured, and in
despair, the others fled to the then uninhabited regions beyond the Red
River of the North. Many of these found refuge under the British flag
in Prince Rupert's Land (now Manitoba).

One of the redeeming features in this terrible tragedy of '62, was the
unflinching loyalty of the Christian Sioux to the cause of peace. They
stood firmly together against the war-party and for the whites. They
abandoned their homes and pitched their teepees closely together. This
became the rallying point for all who were opposed to the outbreak.
They called it Camp Hope, which was changed after the flight of Little
Crow's savage band to Camp Lookout. Two days later, when General
Sibley's victorious troops arrived, it was named Camp Release. Then it
was that the captives, more than three hundred in number were released,
chiefly through the efforts of the Christianized Indians.

In 1902, at the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the battle
of New Ulm, by invitation of the citizens, a band of Sioux Indians
pitched their teepees in the public square and participated in the
exercises of the occasion. This was a striking illustration of the
amity now existing between the two races upon the very ground, where
their immediate ancestors so eagerly sought each other's life-blood, in
the recent past. Here on the morn of battle, on the surrounding hills,
in the long ago, Little Crow had marshalled his fierce warriors, who
rushed eagerly in savage glee, again and again, to the determined
assault, only to be driven back, by the brave Anglo-Saxon defenders.
Tablets, scattered here and there over the plains, in the valley of the
Minnesota River, tell the story of the Sioux nation, in the new
Northwest.

John Baptiste Renville, a licentiate of the Presbyterian church, and
who later was a famous preacher of great power among his own people,
remained inside of the Indian lines, and was a powerful factor in
causing the counter revolution which hastened the overthrow of the
rebellion, and the deliverance of the white captives. Elder Peter Big
Fire turned the war party from the trail of the fleeing missionaries
and their friends, thus savin