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Title: Wakefield's History of the Black Hawk war; a reprint of the 1st edition
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wakefield, John Allen, 1797-1873 Stevens, Frank Everett, 1856-
Subjects: Black Hawk War, 1832
Publisher: Chicago, Caxton Club
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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CHIEF SHA-BO-NA : Dixons, and stated that there wereawattomies awaiting to join the wholere creek, that they had been thereiting our arrival, and that they hadls that they were in great danger as it that the Sacs was (were) not far away.?neral Henry sent on Colonel Fry withh orders to reach there as soon as pos-it arrival. Colonel Fry always strictly moved on with all possible celerity,er as his pilot, to where these childrene awaiting to join in the chase against his band, with Mr. Caldwell who acts AH^OTCMW^afftay had also tneir has been an interpreter to the Indian ne ot arch from Dixon** on rite 17th ofy our course up Rock river, towards the We lay on the night of the 28th, atms battle ground. On the. 29th, we Fry, with the seventy-five Pottawatto- s appeared to be highly pleased to thinkiored so far as to take a hand with usics. They were well armed, with both e village,
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LATE INDIAN WAR 77 which is a considerable Winnebago town, but it wasdeserted. We marched on about one mile, and en-camped in the open prairie near enough to Rock riverto get water from it. We here saw very fresh signsof the Sac Indians, where they had been apparentlyfishing on that day. General Atkinson believed wewere close to them, and apprehended an attack thatnight. The sentinels fired several times, and we wereas often paraded, and prepared to receive the enemy,but they never came. But from what the sentinelsgave into the officers of the day, there was no doubtthat Indians had been prowling about the camp. Julyfirst, we had not marched but two or three miles beforean Indian was seen across Rock river at some distanceoff in a very high prairie, which no doubt was a spy,and likely was one that had been prowling about ourencampment the night before. We proceeded a fewmiles further and came to the place where the Indianswho had taken the two Miss Halls prisoners hadstayed several da

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