DAKOTA CAVALRY.
CHAPTER 95.
A MEMORIAL TO THE HON. E. M. STANTON, SECRETARY OF WAR OF THE UNITED STATES.
Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the Territory of Dakota, would respectfully represent, that in the opinion of your memorialists, the frontier settlements of this territory need, and will need for some time to come, military protection located at different points in the settlements of the territory, to save them and their property from attacks from hostile Indians that are constantly traversing the country; and that no one thing that can be done will have so great an effect to increase settlement and open up this country, as a proper relief afforded to the settlers in this respect; and inasmuch as Fort Randall is situated at a great distance from a large part of the settlements in the territory, thereby rendering [it] of but little direct protection to the citizens; therefore, your memorialists would respectfully pray that the cavalry company raised within this territory for garrisoning Fort Randall, be ordered to coöperate with the civil authorities of the territory, to be stationed at such places as the governor may deem the necessities and wants of the people demand, and will ever pray.
- Approved May 12, 1862.
