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Identifier: annalsofiowa09howe_0 (find matches)
Title: Annals of Iowa
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Howe, Samuel Storrs, 1808-1888 Parvin, Theodore Sutton, 1817-1901 Lloyd, Frederick Huff, Sanford W Aldrich, Charles, 1828-1908 Harlan, Edgar Rubey, 1869-1941 Iowa. Division of Historical Museum and Archives State Historical Society of Iowa Iowa. Historical Dept Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art Dept
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Publisher: (Des Moines, etc., Iowa State Historical Dept., Division of Historical Museum and Archives, etc.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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massed in column, the officers were necessarily exposed to amurderous fire. The Colonel was passing along the lines, cheeringand animating the men to fight to the last, when he was hit bya musket ball. It passed through his heart, and he fell facing theenemy, without a groan or a struggle. His expression of counte-nance was natural and as when sleeping. The fall of their gallant and loved leader only inspired the boyswith new deadly determination, and they fought the enemy thenin a hand-to-hand encounter. Their bodies lay side by side, and wehave the satisfaction of knowing that no traitor touciied his personafter he fell. The railroad was cut hy the enemy and the com-mand had to remain for two days. Every exertion was made tobring the remains to this place, but it was found to be necessary tointer them in Coatesville, where they will rest until communicationwith the North is opened, when the command will have the sadpleasure of forwarding them to such place as the family maydirect. I
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The Black Hawk Sword. lllE SWOKI) 01<^ Jil.ACK HAWK 521 THE SWORD OF BLACK HAWK. BY D. C. BEAMAN. From 1861 to 1874 I lived at Independent (now Selma)on the Des Moines river, in Van Buren county, Iowa, twomiles below the farm of James H. Jordan, and one mile be-low the town of lowaville, where was fought the last battlebetween the Sacs and Foxes and the lowas, in which the lat-ter were practically exterminated. Mr. Jordan was Indian post trader at lowaville in 1833and subsequent years, when Black Hawk had quit fightingand had built a lodge on Jordans farm, where he died andwas buried. I often conversed with Mr. Jordan about theincidents of Black Hawks later life. These were written upby me in 1873 for the Old Settlers Memorial, a journal thenpublished by Thomas Gregg at Keokuk. It was generally known^ notwithstanding the final destruc-tion of Black Hawks skeleton in a fire in Burlington, Iowa,and the destruction or loss of the medals and swords giverihim by others, that the sword g

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