Deponents further say that, on or about the 9th day of December, the said Mrs. Fanny Kelly was brought in as a captive and delivered by the Indians to the commanding officer at Fort Sully; that the Indians came up to the fort painted in war paint, and singing their war songs; that as soon as Mrs. Kelly was within the gates of the fort, they were closed, and all the Indians save those who had her directly in charge were shut out from entrance into said fort.
Deponents further say, that they verily believe, from information then gained, and from that which they afterward learned, it was the intention of the Indians to attack the fort, and they were only prevented from doing so by the preparations which the letter of warning from the said Mrs. Fanny Kelly had induced the commanding officer to make; and they verily believe that, had the attack been made without such preparations, it would have resulted in the capture of the fort and the massacre of its inmates; and such was the expressed opinion of nearly all the members of the said Sixth Iowa Cavalry then stationed therein; and further deponents say not.
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John Logan, Capt. Co. K, Sixth Reg. Iowa Cavalry. Dean Cheadle, O. S. 〃 〃 〃 〃 John M. Williams, Q. M. S. 〃 〃 〃 John Magee, Serg’t Co. H, 〃 〃 〃 John Cooper, Corp. Co. K, 〃 〃 〃 Merit M. Oakley, Corp. Co. H, 〃 〃 〃 |
Personally appeared before me, A. J. McKean, Clerk of the District Court, Linn County, State of Iowa, and made solemn oath that the foregoing is true and correct in all particulars, and that neither of the parties hereto subscribing is interested in any way in any effort which the said Mrs. Kelly may make, or has made, for indemnity, on this 22d day of January, A. D., 1870.
[Seal.]
A. J. McKean,
Clerk District Court, Linn County, Iowa.
| Treasury Department, Second Auditor’s Office, December 2d, 1870 | } |
I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original filed in this office.
E. B. French,
Second Auditor.
[The memoranda below are written with pencil.]