Abstract

Colonel Josiah Snelling, Jr. (1783-1828) was born in Boston to Josiah and Mary Whitlock Snelling. In 1804 he married Elizabeth Bell who died a few years later. He fought in the western region of the United States during the War of 1812 and then helped settle the upper Mississippi Valley. He helped found Minnesota. Josiah was the father of nine children by his first wife and his second wife, Abigail Hunt. Descendants live throughout the United States.

Table of Contents From the conflict to the camp. Introduction ; The Dakota conflict : the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 -- The beginning of the exile. The Dakota collected, examined, expelled ; How the Dakota diaspora began -- First days at Fort Snelling. Arriving at the fort ; The stockade and shelter ; GUards and visitors ; Pictorial preservation -- Epidemic. Initial incidence of the coming epidemic ; Comments on Dakota mortality -- Surviving each day. The first census at the Fort Snelling Indian camp ;...