"Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds
sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel
Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain Bailey, and Lieutenant
Olin, and lately sitting in Minnesota, you cause to be executed on Friday
the nineteenth day of December, instant, the following names, to wit [39
names listed by case number of record: cases 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 14,
15, 19, 22, 24, 35, 67, 68, 69, 70, 96, 115, 121, 138, 155, 170, 175, 178,
210, 225, 254, 264, 279, 318, 327, 333, 342, 359, 373, 377, 382, 383].
The other condemned prisoners you will
hold subject to further orders, taking care that they neither escape, nor
are subjected to any unlawful violence.
Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States"
