Abraham Lincoln to Henry H. Sibley, December 6, 1862

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    Abraham Lincoln to  Henry H. Sibley, December 6, 1862 , in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 5: 542-543, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.
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    Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler
    Adapted by Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College
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    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
    Executive Mansion, Washington,  
    December 6th. 1862.
     
    Brigadier General H.H. Sibley 
    St. Paul Minnesota. 
     
    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 named, towit
    “Te-he-hdo-ne-cha.”  No. 2. by the record.
    “Tazoo” alias “Plan-doo-ta.” No. 4. by the record.
    “Wy-a-tah-to-wah” No. 5 by the record.
    “Hin-han-shoon-ko-yag.” No. 6 by the record.
    “Muz-za-bom-a-du.” No. 10. by the record.
    “Wah-pay-du-ta.” No. 11. by the record.
    “Wa-he-hud.” No. 12. by the record.
    “Sna-ma-ni.” No. 14. by the record.
    “Ta-te-mi-na.” No. 15. by the record.
    “Rda-in-yan-kna.” No. 19. by the record.
    “Do-wan-sa.” No. 22. by the record.
    “Ha-pan.” No. 24. by the record.
    “Shoon-ka-ska.” (White Dog). No. 35. by the record.
    “Toon-kan-e-chah-tay-mane.” No. 67. by the record.
    “E-tay-hoo-tay.” No. 68. by the record.
    “Am-da-cha.” No. 69. by the record.
    “Hay-pee-don---or, Wamne-omne-ho-ta.” No. 70. by the record.
    “Mahpe-o-ke-na-ji.” No. 96. by the record.
    “Henry Milord”---a Half-breed. No. 115. by the record.
    “Chaskay-don”---or Chaskayetay.” No. 121. by the record.
    “Baptiste Campbell” a Halfbreed. No. 138. by the record.
    “Tah-ta-kay-gay.” No. 155. by the record.
    “Ha-pink-pa.” No. 170 by the record.
    “Hypolite Ange” a Half-breed. No. 175 by the record.
    “Na-pay-Shue.” No. 178. by the record.
    “Wa-kan-tan-ka.” No. 210. by the record.
    “Toon-kan-ka-yag-e-na-jin.” No. 225. by the record.
    “Ma-kat-e-na-jin.” No. 254. by the record.
    “Pa-zee-koo-tay-ma-ne.” No. 264. by the record.
    “Ta-tay-hde-don.” No. 279. by the record.
    “Wa-She-choon,” or “Toon-kan-shkan-shkan-mene-hay.” No. 318. by the record.
    “A-e-cha-ga.”  No. 327. by the record.
    “Ha-tan-in-koo.” No. 333. by the record.
    “Chay-ton-hoon-ka.” No. 342. by the record.
    “Chan-ka-hda.” No. 359. by the record.
    “Hda-hin-hday.” No. 373. by the record.
    “O-ya-tay-a-koo.” No. 377. by the record.
    “May-hoo-way-wa.” No. 382. by the record.
    “Wa-kin-yan-na.” No. 383 by the record
    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,
     
     
     
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