The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's LifeStevens, Frank Everett
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The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life
Stevens, Frank Everett
Black Hawk War, 1832; Black Hawk, Sauk chief, 1767-1838
5 killed, 2 wounded, 6th Inft.
2 wounded, 5th Inft.
1 captain, 5 privates Dodge’s Bat. mounted.
1 lieutenant, 6 privates, Henry’s.
1 private wounded, Alexander’s.
1 private, Posey’s.
“I have the honor to be, with great respect,
“Your obedient servant,
“H. ATKINSON, Brevet Brig-Gen.,
U.S.A
“MAJOR-GEN. MACOMB, Com.-in-Chief, Washington.”
Whipped so thoroughly that no more fight remained in him, Black
Hawk, at the close of August 2d, fled to the woods of the North with
his sons and principal officers, hoping that he would be protected
by his whilom friends, the Winnebagoes, when once in the fastnesses
of the Dalles of the Wisconsin, far from the scenes of conflict; but
General Street, in calling the Winnebagoes to the Agency on August
4th, had anticipated and frustrated every plan and move of the
defeated and fugitive Indians. From the Agency he sent in pursuit of
them the one-eyed Decori and Chaeter, who caught first Black Hawk
and the Prophet, and later the Sioux caught Ne-a-pope. The most
authentic account of that capture seems to be the one made by David
McBride, and is to be found in Vol. 5 of the Wisconsin Historical
Collections, page 293, verbose, but in the main correct:
“He became satisfied the battle was lost, and hastily retreated to
a surrounding height, overlooking the sanguinary battleground,
accompanied by his faithful adjunct, the Prophet, and for an
instant turned to view the scene of his disastrous defeat, his
haughty bosom filled with mingled feelings of disappointment and
despair, * * * then hastily fled, to seek a temporary refuge among
his pseudo friends, the Winnebagoes of the Lemonweir valley.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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