CHAPTER XI.

1861-1862.--Republican Administration.--Its Mistakes.--Changing Annuities.--Results.--Returning from General Assembly.--A Marriage in St. Paul.--D. Wilson Moore and Wife.--Delayed Payment.--Difficulty with the Sissetons.--Peace Again.--Recruiting for the Southern War.--Seventeenth of August, 1862.--The Outbreak.--Remembering Christ's Death.--Massacres Commenced.--Capt. Marsh's Company.--Our Flight.--Reasons Therefor.--Escape to an Island.--Final Leaving.--A Wounded Man.--Traveling on the Prairie.--Wet Night.--Taking a Picture.--Change of Plan.--Night Travel.--Going Around Fort Ridgely.--Night Scares.--Safe Passage.--Four Men Killed.--The Lord Leads Us.--Sabbath.--Reaching the Settlements.--Mary at St. Anthony 171