Captain L. S. Waite, who was thru this country forty-five years ago and who was in command of one company of the 200 frontier cavalry scouts who accompanied General Sibley in 1862, passed Tuesday last in our town. Capt. Waite says the troops had a lively brush with the Indians near the south end of Lake Eckelson during the pursuit following the Minnesota massacre. He received a one ounce ball thru the cheeks from an Indian who fired within ten feet of him. The Captain has spent most of his life on the frontier and is full of reminiscences of this section, over which he has hunted buffalo as well as hostile Sioux.
Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 330