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“So far as I am concerned” he said, tapping the communique, “if they are hungry let them eat grass or their own dung.” ~ Andrew Myrick to Agent Galbraith, 1862
Also in 1862, Myrick was killed on the first day at the Attack at the Lower Sioux Agency, where Dakota warriors took revenge for its forced starvation of the Dakotas.
When his body was found days later, “his body was mutilated, his head being severed from the body and the mouth filled with grass.” Out of revenge, Dakota warriors stuffed his mouth and the cleft of his buttocks with grass.