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Ghboring village, where they had gone to aid in recruiting volunteers
for the Union army, were fired upon from an ambush by a number of
mounted Indians, and several of them killed. Those who escaped had
barely time to get back to New Ulm and give the alarm before the Indians
advanced upon the town, and began firing at long range upon the
distressed and panic-stricken inhabitants, who were huddled together, in
helpless confusion, in a few of the more protected houses. Fortunately,
a squad of eighteen armed men from one of the lower counties had arrived
there an hour or two previous. Only six of the number had good guns; but
they immediately organized themselves, and went forward to meet the
savages. By dint of determined coolness and bravery, they held the
Indians at bay, killing several of them, until, seeing the town
reenforced by another small party of mounted whites, the savages
retreated. The fight lasted two or three hours, and a number of the
Germans were killed. Beaten back from New Ulm, the Indians retraced
their course up the river, and being joined by other bands, a concerted
and deliberate attack was next made on Fort Ridgely. Like too many of
our frontier forts, it is a fort only in name. Situated on a projecting
spur of the river bluff
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