Newsletter 2 1978.pdf - The Grayson Family

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'$2 a day for privates wEo-*marched
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to S~irit Lalie after '57 massacre I
continge~lt~the State of Iowa, and hencelo€ March, and ranged above thelto the Committee on ~1;
Dodge/you will observe that all not!average prices for that seasonlw i t h the other vor
made ancharged to the general coni-in 1857. You n1.y rememberherewith submitted, PI
expedition .to spirit Lake aftwimittee are charged to the State.lthat that month was very in- doubtlessly before thp
news of a $massacre there bylThese bills and vouchers thus)clement, that the roads wereln~itlee wha the bit
a hand-of Sioux Indians led by approved should be regarded aslobstruct~d with snow andlreferred to was prep
Chief Inkpndutah. Several of the jsatisfactory evidence that the tranrportatinn a l m n r t imn-reportrd to the Y
volunteers died during theiarticles charged were acrually I have already called~Representativer. The <
expedition from the severity of furnished to and received by thelyour attention to the thoroughlthat bill as certified '
the winter storms on the volunteers. -Each is in fact a!scrutiny to which these billsjevidence of the estii
prairie.
receipt executed by the officerlhave been subjected; it is onlyupoll these claims
Following is a copy oi theldesiignated for that duty by the necessary to add that those whoistale of Iowa prop
,application made to the state!volunteers.
thus examined them were menithem out of her o
of Iowa for reimbursement for1 But, secondly, these claimsffamiliar with the subject, andj~ou will learn by !
'supplies furnished and forlare fortified by additionallthnt the examination was nladeiof the Secretary
services rendered in the ex-;evidence. Although the corn-;before any provision had beenibut for the lache
pedition.
TO-Hon. W. .T. Cullen,
Superintendent Etc.
State of Iowa
Sir:
.Lmissary was not acting underlmade for their payment by thelof a clerical qf
a comnlissioi~ from the general government. (would today be .
Governor of Iowa, his cer- Permit me to add by way(and these clair
tificates or receipts have been of conclusion under this head,/be~n paid to t
treated as valid by both the that nearly all of the claimants,a~king their ai
Governor and Legislature of were poor frontiers men, ~h~lgeneral gover
Application is llercby made inithat State. At the last session surrendered the provisions thatithat the origin
bphalf of the persons herein-lo! ,the Iowa Legislature thesethey had been enahled by thelbe f0~11d in
named, for the paymenl,l)llls and vouchers were sub-/most rigid economy'to put in Secretary of '
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names respectively, viz:
1.H. A. Cramer
2. John Shippy
3. ~ostwlck a Fostcr
4. W. Clark
5. W. R. Miller
6. Rhaderick Smith
7. A. 5. White
8. Walter C. Wilson
9. David Rlack
10. Lalman Wiltsev
11..M. W. Hovrland
12. Jeremiah Evens
13. Robertson & Bartin
11. G. W. McClore
15. A. R. Tillis
16. Thomas A. Reid
17. Jahn Shaffner
1s. Harrls Hoover
OFFICERS
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