Excerpt from Memorial Addresses in Honor of Judge Charles E. Flandrau: At the Monthly Council Meeting of the Minnesota Historical Society, in the State Capitol, St. Paul, Minn;;, Monday Evening, November 9, 1903 His published writings comprise a condensed history of Minnesota, published in; 1900, as a preface to an Encyclopedia of Biography of Minnesota, and later as a separate book; articles published in the magazines of the day; and many papers scattered through the publications of this Society. He was one of a board of six commissioners who prepared and published, by authority of the Legislature, the military history known as Minnesota in the Civil and Indians Wars, 1861-1865, for which he wrote the part pertaining to the Indian War. Most, if not all, of these writings were historical, biographical, or episodic in their nature. He rescued from oblivion interesting episodes of the early days, some Of which changed the course of events of some importance, as, for example, the unique if not creditable way in which the almost accomplished removal of the capitol to St. Peter was de feated, though he had no hand in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.