Bicentennial Story #98-Newman's court martial

Bicentennial Story #98-Newman's court martial

Account of the punishment of Private John Newman for mutiny in 1804.

9/15/1975

Father Louis Pfaller

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audio reel, analog, 1/4 inch polyester tape

English

BS-098

North Dakota

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

Arikara Chief Eagle Feather cried the day Lewis and Clark entered present North Dakota, October 14, 1804. Private John Newman had been convicted of mutiny by his peers and was now being given 75 lashes on his bare back. The explorers recorded: "This operation affected the Indian Chief very sensibly, for he cried aloud during the punishment; we explained the offense and the reasons of it. He acknowledged that examples were necessary, and that he himself had given them by punishing with death, but his nation never whipped even children from their birth."

This is Bicentennial Story No. 98, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society.

Reid, 12-17

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1970 1979

Bicentennial tape #6, Bicentennial stories 87-107