Constitutional convention, election for, 135; delegates, 135; result of election, 137; the split, 137; efforts to unite the two bodies, 139; conferees appointed, 139; report of conferees, 140.
Crooks, William, appointed colonel of Sixth Minnesota, 189.
Cullen, Major, Sioux agent, mentioned, 148.
Davis, Cushman K., antecedents of, 294; secures governorship, 295; balks Senator Ramsey of reëlection, 296; fails to secure nomination for U. S. senator, 297; address at celebration of two hundredth anniversary of discovery of falls of St. Anthony, 325; recommends arbitration of railroad bonds, 329; elected U. S. senator (1887), 341; reëlected U.S. senator, 341; Spanish treaty commissioner (1898), 341; address at laying corner-stone of new capitol, 343; death, 341.
Declarants for naturalization deprived of suffrage, 347.
Delano, Columbus, investigates Chippeway half-breed scrip, 115.
Dodd, Capt., killed in battle of New Ulm, 209.
Donnelly, Ignatius, antecedents, 170; elected lieutenant-governor, 170; reëlected lieutenant-governor, 177; elected to Congress (1862), 248; aspires to U. S. senatorship, 262; attack on Representative E. B. Washburne, 262; fails to receive nomination for U. S. senator, 264; withdraws from senatorial contest, 297; nominee for Congress (1878), 316; contests W. D. Washburn’s election, 317; turns to authorship, 318; champions free school-books, 321.
Douglas, Stephen A., expedites Minnesota organic act, 89.
Douglass, Capt., engineer of Cass’s expedition, 71.
Duluth, on Lake Superior, 16; on Pigeon River, 17; on Mille Lacs, (1679), 17; at Point Douglass (1680), 19; meets Accault’s party, 19.
Dunnell, Mark H., superintendent of public instruction, 256.
Edgerton, Gen. A. J., appointed state railroad commissioner, 280.
Eleventh Minnesota Infantry, raised, 247.
Enabling act: opposition to, 134; passage of, 134; land grants of, 134.
Expedition to upper Mississippi (1680), 18.
Fifteenth Minnesota Volunteers, in Spanish War, 351.
Fifth Minnesota Infantry, raised, 185; leaves three companies in Indian forts, 185; at Corinth, 185; at Nashville, 244.
First Battery of Minnesota Light Artillery at Shiloh, 187.
First Minnesota Infantry, called, 178; mustered, 179; enlists for three years, 179; leaves for the South, 180; at first Bull Run, 180; at Antietam, 180; charge at Gettysburg, 240.