In a message dated 2/16/02 12:07:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I just learned that my gr gr grandfather and family may have been in the New > Ulm area at the time of the 1862 Sioux uprising. My husband's great gr grandfather was also there during the uprising. His name was Henry Hammer. I have a copy of a letter he wrote back to his sister in Germany about the event which I recently posted on this list. Jodi