Dean The First Minnesota was a very famous outfit which fought in every famous battle in the east in the Civil War until their enlistments were up sometime in 1864, I know nothing of Minnesotans chasing Indians in Iowa. That may have been the case, but I'm pretty sure that the First Minnesota wasn't the unit. Actually, I just checked my reference books and found it was the Tenth U.S. Infantry (Regular Army) stationed at Ft. Ripley. They made a futile attempt to find Inkpaduta, but he was long gone before they got to his camp. And before they could move against him again, the entire unit was ordered to go to Utah to take up arms against the Mormons. According to Charles Flandrau, later a squad of soldiers and civilians, otherwise unidentified, succeeded in killing one of Inkapaduta's sons. Interesting, I didn't know about that bit of history. Ray Marshall Minneapolis -----Original Message----- From: DCame3260@aol.com [mailto:DCame3260@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 6:05 PM To: MNSTLOUI-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MNSTLOUI] Harrison Lyons and Inkpaduta In my ongoing research of my Lyons / Cameron families I have come across some information about Harrison Lyons. It seems that before he enlisted in the 1st Minnesota Volunteers at the age of 19 in 1861, he was involved in fighting or chasing Inkpaduta the Indian Chief who had massacred 30+ white settlers at Spirit Lake Iowa. This Chief was considered the terror of many. In the real story he did the things that made him feared but only at the constant cruelty of the authorities of the day against his people. So he was somewhat of an Indian Robin Hood as far as I can tell. Inkpaduta traveled throughout Minnesota and helped spawn the Sioux uprisings of 1862. Harrison must have been only 17 or 18 when he took arms against this man. I was wondering if he would have been old enough to be part of the group that was dispatched from Ft. Ripley to chase Inkpaduta or would he have had to be from a "Civilian Militia". Are their any records of the names of men who were of that party? Does anyone on these lists that I am sending this too that might have some access to the history of Inkpaduta? Thanks as always, Dean Cameron ============================== Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! http://searches.rootsweb.com/