Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1912 — RECALLS FIGHT WITH INDIANS [ARTICLE]

RECALLS FIGHT WITH INDIANS

Record of Fort Ridgely Fight Is Preserved in Special Edition Issued by the Fairfax Standard. St. Paul.—ln commemoration of the battle of Fort Ridgely which occurred Aug. 22, 1862, Asa M. Wallace, a deputy state fire marshal and publisher of the Fairfax Standard, has Issued a special edition of-his paper, in which he gives a full account of the incidents which led up to the brief but bloody war between the white settlers and Indians around New Ulm, Redwood Falla, or Redwood Agency, as the place was known then, located about seven miles south of the present town of Fairfax. The souvenir edition Is nearly printed on heavy book paper, and there are a number of Illustrations. Several special articles are contributed by well-known men who were In Minnesota' at the time, and some of whom took part in the battles. Then there are reports from the officers In command; Lieut. John F. Bishop at Redwood, with the heroic Captain Marsh, Lieut. T. J. Sheehan at Fort Ridgely, Col. C. F. Flandrau at New Ulm, and others. The battles are said to have been among the most bloody o t, those fought between the whites and Indians. Over 3,000 men, women and children fell victims to the savages. The struggle attracted little attention at the time, for the Civil war was In progress, but It was no less Important than bloody, for it subdued the savages and saved southwestern Minnesota to the whites.