NARRATIVE
OF
MY CAPTIVITY
AMONG THE
SIOUX INDIANS.
BY
FANNY KELLY.
WITH A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF GENERAL SULLY’S INDIAN EXPEDITION IN 1864,
      BEARING UPON EVENTS OCCURRING IN MY CAPTIVITY.
CINCINNATI:
WILSTACH, BALDWIN & CO., PRINTERS,
No. 143 Race Street,
1871.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
      FANNY KELLY,
      In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
STEREOTYPED AT THE FRANKLIN TYPE FOUNDRY, CINCINNATI.
DEDICATION.
TO THE
Officers and Soldiers of the Eleventh Ohio Cavalry,
For their
      Persistent and Daring
      Efforts to Aid my Husband in
      effecting my Rescue;
      and to the
Officers and Soldiers of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry,
For Kindness
      shown me after my Ransom
      and Return to Fort Sully, this
      Narrative is Affectionately
      Dedicated by
THE AUTHOR.
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INTRODUCTORY.
The summer of 1864 marked a period of unusual peril to the daring    pioneers seeking homes in the far West. Following upon the horrible    massacres in Minnesota in 1862, and the subsequent chastisements    inflicted by the expeditions under Generals Sully and Sibley in    1863, whereby the Indians were driven from the then western borders    of civilization, in Iowa, Minnesota, and the white settlements of    Dakota, in the Missouri Valley, the great emigrant trails to Idaho    and Montana became the scene of fresh outrages; and, from the wild,    almost inaccessible nature of the country, pursuit and punishment were    impossible.
I was a member of a small company of emigrants, who were attacked by    an overwhelming force of hostile Sioux, which resulted in the death of    a large proportion viof the party, in my own capture, and a horrible    captivity of five months’ duration.
Of my thrilling adventures and experience during this season of terror    and privation, I propose to give a plain, unvarnished narrative, hoping    the reader will be more interested in facts concerning the habits,    manners, and customs of the Indians, and their treatment of prisoners,    than in theoretical speculations and fine-wrought sentences.
Some explanation is due the public for the delay in publishing this    my narrative. From memoranda, kept during the period of my captivity,    I had completed the work for publication, when the manuscript was    purloined and published; but the work was suppressed before it could be    placed before the public. After surmounting many obstacles, I have at    last succeeded in gathering the scattered fragments; and, by the aid of    memory, impressed as I pray no mortal’s may ever be again, am enabled                        
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