CHAPTER VI. [226] on December 22, 1819, the House of Representatives Passed a

On December 22, 1819, the House of Representatives passed a resolution directing the Secretary of War, J. C. Calhoun, to prepare a system of martial law and field service. His report was communicated to the House on December 26, 1820, and was entitled Systems of Martial Law, and Field Service, and Police. It is composed of two parts, namely, General Regulations for the Army, and A System of Martial Law. It is from these regulations that the following sketch of the routine life at a military post is built up. The report is published in the American State Papers, Military Affairs, Vol. II, pp. 201-274.

Ingersoll's A History of the War Department of the United States, pp. 205, 206.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. II, p. 119.

American State Papers, Military Affairs, Vol. II, p. 210.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 95.

American State Papers, Military Affairs, Vol. II, p. 210.

American State Papers, Military Affairs, Vol. II, pp. 217, 218.

These account books are in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society.

Bishop's Floral Home; or, First Years of Minnesota, p. 161.

Taliaferro's Diary, March 22, 1831; Post Returns, March, 1840, in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 97.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 345.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, pp. 336, 344.

American State Papers, Military Affairs, Vol. III, pp. 341, 342; Post Returns, September, 1828, in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C.

Taliaferro's Diary, February 3, 1831.

This report is published in the American State Papers, Military Affairs, Vol. III, pp. 273-277.

American State Papers, Military Affairs, Vol. II, pp. 558, 706, Vol. III, p. 115.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 345.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. I, p. 476.

American State Papers, Military Affairs, Vol. III, pp. 341, 342.

American State Papers, Military Affairs, Vol. III, p. 277.

American State Papers, Military Affairs, Vol. II, p. 205; Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 101.

Eastman's Dahcotah; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling, pp. 144, 145.

American State Papers, Military Affairs, Vol. II, p. 265.

Detroit Gazette, February 18, 1820.

Keating's Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Vol. I, p. 305.

The Minnesota Pioneer, July 15, 1852.

Executive Documents, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9, p. 26; Post Returns, July, 1827, in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 340.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VIII, p. 432.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. II, p. 115.

Joseph M. Street to Postmaster General Barry, April 27, 1831.--Street Papers, No. 15, Historical Department, Des Moines, Iowa.

Williams's A History of the City of Saint Paul, p. 44.

Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1913, pp. 116, 117.

Taliaferro's Diary, April 2, 5, 10, February 27, 1831.

Street to Clark, March 10, 1831.--William Clark Papers, Correspondence, 1830-1832, p. 132; Post Returns, March, 1830. See also Post Returns, December, 1829, December, 1830, in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 342.

Reports of Committees, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Report No. 351, p. 131.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 342.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. II, p. 130. "Monsieur Tonson" was a very popular farce written by W. T. Moncrief in 1821. The French barber, Morbleu, is greatly troubled by a steady stream of visitors who come to make inquiries regarding a certain fictitious Mr. Thompson, hoping thereby to gain information regarding Adolphine de Courcy who has been traced to his door.--Walsh's Heroes and Heroines of Fiction, p. 360.

Taliaferro's Diary, January 20, February 22, 1831.

Snelling to Taliaferro, October 19, July 25, 1824.--Taliaferro Letters, Vol. I, Nos. 50, 56.

The Minnesota Pioneer, November 28, 1849.

Taliaferro's Diary, February 10, 11, 24, 1831.

George F. Turner to H. H. Sibley, February 11, 1842.--Sibley Papers, 1840-1850.

Taliaferro to Street, March 30, 1831.--Street Papers, No. 12.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 100.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. II, p. 112.

Neill's The History of Minnesota (Fourth Edition), p. 920. General Edmund P. Gaines inspected the post shortly afterwards and reported: "From a conversation with the colonel, I can have no doubt that he has erred in the course pursued by him in reference to some of those controversies, inasmuch as he has intimated to his officers his willingness to sanction, in certain cases, and even to participate in personal conflicts, contrary to the twenty-fifth article of war."--American State Papers, Military Affairs, Vol. IV, p. 123.

Taliaferro's Diary, March 27, 1831.