Colonel Josiah Snelling (1782 – 20 August 1828) was the first commander of Fort Snelling, a fort located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers in Minnesota. He was responsible for the initial design and construction of the fort, and he commanded it from 1820 through 1827. He had a reputation for being tough and fair-minded, but also had a mean temper when he was drunk. His second wife, Abigail Hunt Snelling, extended hospitality to visitors to the fort. She also founded a Sunday School for the fort's children and assisted families from the Red River Colony (the Selkirk Settlement).
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Leavenworth was originally chosen to locate the fortification at the mouth of the St. Peter's River (the prior name of the Minnesota River) in 1819. His expedition started out in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in May 1819, ascending the Fox River, then portaging to the Wisconsin River and following it downstream to its confluence with the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. He remained at Fort Crawford with his soldiers until supplies arrived in August, 1819, and then the expedition traveled upriver to the confluence with the St. Peter's River. His soldiers originally built a winter settlement, known as Cantonment New Hope, two miles (3 km) up the St. Peter's River from the confluence. The next spring, in anticipation of flooding, he moved the troops to higher ground at a site known as Camp Coldwater, a mile up the Mississippi from the confluence of the rivers. Leavenworth was later relieved of his duty in August 1820 and succeeded by Colonel Josiah Snelling.
Two Minnesota streets, one in Minneapolis (Snelling Avenue), the other in Saint Paul (Snelling Avenue), in Minnesota's capital city, are named after him.
Colonel JosiahSnelling (1782 – 20 August 1828) was the first commander of Fort Snelling, a fort located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota...
Fort Snelling site. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources administers Fort Snelling State Park at the bottom of the bluff. Fort Snelling once...
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died in 1827 outside of Fort Crawford. JosiahSnelling died in 1828, and William Joseph Snelling moved on. Snelling returned to Boston and entered the writing...
the ordinance. When Fort Snelling was built in 1820, fur traders and officers at the post, including Colonel JosiahSnelling, used enslaved labor for...
during the battle and returned to Detroit during the ensuing days. JosiahSnelling, known colloquially as the Prairie Chicken, was cited for gallantry...
intending to make it his career. Taliaferro partnered with Colonel JosiahSnelling to ensure peace and safety for the frontier outpost. His role was to...
Plattsburgh, New York, Snelling was a son of Col. JosiahSnelling and Abigail (Hunt) Snelling. During Henry's infancy, the Snellings moved to the confluence...
Company of Capt. William C. Baen (Lt. Charles Larrabee) Company of Capt. JosiahSnelling Company of Capt. George W. Prescott Company of Capt. Return B. Brown...
nearly 300,000 inductees. Fort Snelling is now a historic site operated by the Minnesota Historical Society. Fort Snelling was largely responsible for the...
S. Purdy) Light Infantry Corps [est. 350 officers and men] (Major JosiahSnelling) Fourth U.S. Infantry Regiment [591 officers and men] (Lieutenant Colonel...
prisoners were also moved to Fort Snelling. In May 1827, after Dakotas attacked an Ojibwe party near Fort Snelling, Colonel Snelling arrested four of the Dakotas...
received minor damage when a kamikaze struck her mast and antennas SS JosiahSnelling's Armed Guard gunfire deflected the Japanese plane from its deckhouse...
Fort Snelling. Coldwater Spring is located on the west bluffs of the Mississippi River directly south of Minnehaha Park and adjacent to Fort Snelling State...
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Prentice William A. Jones Homer Lea Anson Burlingame Louis Hennepin JosiahSnelling George Washington Carver Luther Burbank George M. Pullman Wilbur Wright...
Prentice William A. Jones Homer Lea Anson Burlingame Louis Hennepin JosiahSnelling George Washington Carver Luther Burbank George M. Pullman Wilbur Wright...
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