An entry in the records of the War Dept. reads: “Fort Dearborn having become a general hospital on July 11th, no returns were received until its reoccupation: Companies G and I, 2d Infantry, returned to the fort on October 1st from the campaign.” Wentworth’s address on Ft. Dearborn. Footnote 255: Ft. Dearborn by Wentworth, p. 12. Footnote 256: Ft. Dearborn by Wentworth, p. 34. Footnote 257: Ft. Dearborn by Wentworth, p. 34. Footnote 258: Ft. Dearborn by Wentworth, p. 37, where the names are given. Footnote 259: Scott’s letter, Mo. Republican for Aug. 7, 1832. Footnote 260: Scott’s letter to Capt. J.R. Brant, A.Q.M., St. Louis, pub. in Mo. Rep. Aug. 7, 1832. Footnote 261: Johnston’s Journal. Footnote 262: Scott’s letter to Hon. Lewis Cass, dated Aug. 10, 1832. Footnote 263: Davidson and Stuve, p. 407. Galenian of Aug. 22d. Footnote 264: Niles, Vol. 43, p. 51. Footnote 265: 118 as reported by Scott. Niles, Sept. 29, p. 69. Footnote 266: Capt. Henry Smith, X Wis. Hist. Colls., p. 165. Footnote 267: Cholera appeared in the ranks of Capt. Jesse B. Brown’s company just below Dixon’s Ferry. Nurses were left behind to care for the sick. At Port Armstrong thirteen of the company died and were buried in the woods. X Wis., 231. Footnote 268: Capt. Henry Smith, X Wis., 165. Footnote 269: Scott’s Autobiography. Footnote 270: Postponed from the 10th. Footnote 271: Scott’s Autobiog., Vol. 1, p. 227. Footnote 272: Vol. 7, U.S. Statutes at Large by Peters, p. 374. Footnote 273: Niles Reg., Vol. 43, p. 180, Nov. 17, 1832. ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER XXXVII. MOVEMENTS OF THE MICHIGAN MILITIA. In the year 1832, Michigan, as a Territory, embraced that territory later erected into the State of Wisconsin, and while the latter was storm-swept with the troops, the peninsula was in no danger whatever. A great danger was anticipated, and during the tremendous scare which spread over it from one end to the other, enough correspondence passed between Acting Governor Stevens T. Mason, Gen. J.R. Williams and his subalterns to have sufficed for a war of two years’ duration. From the first, a fear that Black Hawk intended to go to Malden with his people and there end his days prevailed among the people of the Territory, in which event bloodshed and all the horrors of a border warfare were feared. From statements made by Black Hawk at subsequent periods, notably to Col. John Shaw, some foundation might appear for this position, but prior to his surrender the officers did not entertain such a thought, and it was contrary to his repeated declarations before Stillman’s battle. At any rate, a supernatural fear ran through the entire peninsula, to check which and provide every means of defense for the settlers the following order was issued: