effects to the higher ground opposite, which was called "Camp 

 Cold Water" from the fine spring where the garrison obtains 

 its present supply. Nature had provided an ideal location for 

 a fort on the high point overlooking the rivers, and here it 

 was decided the post should be built. A sawmill was the 

 first necessity, one being constructed at the falls of St. An- 

 thony, which sawed the lumber, this with the quarrying of 

 the stone and the building of the walls being accomplished 

 entirely by the men in the command. The fort was in the 

 original diamond-shaped, with the historic "Round Tower" on 

 the western point. From it, walls about ten feet in height ran 

 to the brink of the bluff, a tower being constructed at this 

 junction point, while an enclosing wall followed the edge of 

 the cliff from each tower, which was on the northern and 

 southern extremity of the diamond, to a lookout tower on the 

 extreme east. Slits were built into the walls and towers in 

 such a manner that they would allow the besieged to fire in 

 nearly every direction, being about three by five feet wide in 

 the inside to narrow down to a two-inch wide aperture some 

 three feet long. Four buildings are standing of the original 

 group, the "Round Tower," the "Block House," which stood 

 at the most southern point, and the two barracks on the east- 

 ern end. 



Colonel Levenworth called the new post Fort St. Anthony, 

 but before he had completed his work, he was transferred to 

 another command, Colonel Josiah Snelling succeeding him. 

 While the latter was the commandant, he was visited by Gen- 

 eral Winfield Scott, who was so pleased with the energy and 

 push displayed in carrying on the work that in his report, he 

 recommended that the new post be designated as "Fort Snell- 

 ing," an order to that effect being issued in 1824. Bands of 

 Indians were continually visiting Fort Snelling, and during 

 the summer of 1826, a band of Ojiboway encamped on the east- 

 ern shore of the Mississippi, nearly opposite the fort. They 

 were attacked by a band of Sioux, and men, women and chil- 

 dren were indiscriminately butchered. Colonel Snelling wit- 

 nessed the battle from the tower of the fort. After the fight, 

 the victorious Sioux proceeded to the prairie to the west of 

 the garrison, a quarter of a mile away, and danced their scalp 



