Book/Printed Material The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857
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Image 1 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 William W. Folwell.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 2 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 THE SALE OF FORT SNELLING, 1857.* * Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, Sept. 9, 1912. BY WILLIAM WATTS FOLWELL. When Major General James Wilkinson, commanding at St. Louis,...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 3 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 394 It was doubtless at the instance of the American Fur Company that after 1816 the government was moved to extend its authority to the territory about the upper Mississippi. Early in...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 4 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 395 this survey was revised by Lieutenant Thompson. The area reserved for military purposes did not, of course, embrace the whole of the Pike concession. The main body lay in the angle...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 5 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 396 to the same effect. Judge B. B. Meeker, of the Territorial Supreme Court, urged Mr. Sibley, in a letter of December 11, 1850, “to be on the lookout” for a certain...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 6 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 397 Beginning at the middle of the channel of the Mississippi river below Pike's island; thence ascending along the channel of said river in such a direction as to include all the...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 7 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 398 entire area of the reductions to 25,184.58 acres, and the total receipts therefor to $31,643.97. There remained, after these reductions, the tract in the fork of the rivers and including Fort...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 8 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 399 to be found unnecessary. Rice undertook the task, and succeeded in having inserted in the army appropriation bill of March 3, 1857, a brief paragraph extending the provision of 1819 to...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 9 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 400 By chance the two gentlemen just named met in Brown's Hotel, and fell into conversation about investments in western lands. It would seem that the Virginian made a deep impression on...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 10 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 401 Major Eastman of a commission to act as his colleague. On the same day he was furnished with the instructions of the department. The commissioners were first to ascertain whether any...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 11 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 402 secretary on the subject. He had not asked for the appointment. Commissioner Heiskell arrived in Saint Paul on Sunday; Monday was election day; Tuesday he did not find Major Eastman; Wednesday...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 12 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 403 occurred to them to exact interest on the deferred payments, nor a mortgage to secure them. The rate on current loans at the time was two and a half per cent...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 13 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 404 heart of the staff officer or his general. “The dissertation about Fort Snelling,” said the secretary, “its sale, and the importance of it for a military depot, is a gratuitous intermeddling...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 14 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 405 together with the findings of the minority, the testimony of witnesses, and documents, it forms an octavo volume of 456 pages. It is H. R. Report No. 351, Thirty-fifth Congress, first...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 15 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 406 2. That the action of the Secretary of War, in disposing of the post without the knowledge or opinion of any military officer, was a grave fault; 3. That the agents...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 16 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 407 The whitewashing proposition of the minority was immediately rejected by a vote of yeas 116, nays 86. The compromise resolutions were severally adopted, the test vote being yeas 133, nays 60....- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 17 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 408 It was not an absurd expectation in 1857 that the Snelling reservation would be abandoned and later disposed of. In 1853 Fort Ridgely had been built, and not long afterward Fort...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 18 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 409 that Rice gave himself an amount of trouble which a mere political friend would hardly have a right to exact. It was Rice who presented Steele's proposition to the War Department...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857
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Image 19 of The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857 410 possible profits. His action bears the appearance of perfunctoriness under direction of some managing agent. The expectation of all concerned evidently was that the deal would require only a small sum...- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Folwell, William Watts
- Date: 1857