RECOLLECTIONS OF THE SIOUX MASSACRE; AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE YELLOW MEDICINE INCIDENT, OF THE FATE OF MARSH AND HIS MEN, OF THE SIEGE AND BATTLES OF FORT RIDGELY, AND OF OTHER IMPORTANT BATTLES AND EXPERIENCES. TOGETHER WITH A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE SIBLEY EXPEDITION OF 1863.

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WALL, OSCAR GARRETT. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE SIOUX MASSACRE; AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE YELLOW MEDICINE INCIDENT, OF THE FATE OF MARSH AND HIS MEN, OF THE SIEGE AND BATTLES OF FORT RIDGELY, AND OF OTHER IMPORTANT BATTLES AND EXPERIENCES. TOGETHER WITH A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE SIBLEY EXPEDITION OF 1863.
Lake City, Minn.: Printed at The Home Printery, 1909. First edition. 282, iii pp. 8 plates. Illus, and map in text. Original gilt cloth. 8vo. Very good, with light exterior wear and name stamp of former owner, R. F. Walker, Ortonville, Minn. on front flyleaf. Based on the author's diary kept during the battles. He claims that it is "the only detailed account of the Sibley Expedition of 1863 ever published." HOWES W 46: "With Marsh at Fort Ridgley in 1862, and with Sibley's 1863 expedition." WRIGHT HOWES 45: "Probably the best history of this war and certainly the scarcest." STREETER SALE 1981. GRAFF 4519.

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