The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life
By Stevens, Frank Everett
Classic work by Stevens, Frank Everett.
Table of Contents
Black Hawk. Not a Chief. Made a Brave. Expeditions against the Osages. Death of Py-e-sa. Period of Mourning. Expedition against the Osages. Expedition against the Cheroke...
Attack. Black Hawk joins Tecumseh. Returns to his Village. Attacks Fort Madison. The Siege 37...
Hole. Various Murders. British Agents withdrawn from Rock River Country 52...
Gathering Settlements about Black Hawk’s village. Friction. Attempted Compromise. Complaints. Gov. Reynolds calls out Militia. Notifies Clark and Gaines. Correspondence. G...
Attack on the Sioux. They Retaliate. Attack on the Menominees. A Council 100...
Black Hawk Moves down Iowa River and up the Mississippi to Rock River. Atkinson Moves up to Ft. Armstrong 109...
Arrival of Atkinson. Lead Mines Militia. Erection of Forts. Dodge’s March to the Four Lakes Country 139...
Atkinson’s March Continued. Insubordination. Army Disbanded. Interim Regiment Raised 159...
Mines Country. Battle of Pecatonica. Capt. Stephenson’s Battle 176...
Disposition of Same. Murder of Phillips. March to Dixon’s Ferry 188...
Forward. Alexander’s Division Ordered to Plum River. Henry’s Division, with Regulars, Moved 202...
Shot. Henry, Alexander and Dodge Detached to Move to Ft. Winnebago. Posey sent to Ft. Hamilton. Disintegration of Army. Alexander’s Return ...
Treatment of Disobedient Officers. Black Hawk’s Trail to Westward Discovered. Forced March. Battle of the Wisconsin. At Blue Mounds 21...
Black Hawk’s Flight. Capture. Delivery to Gen. Street. Council 226...
at Ft. Armstrong. Black Hawk’s Apology. Black Hawk Released 259...
Toast at Ft. Madison. Interview with Iowas. Death. Burial. His Grave Robbed. Bones Recovered. Consumed by Fire. Death of Madam Black Hawk ...
BIRTH–PERSONAL DESCRIPTION AND CHARACTER OF BLACK HAWK–NOT A CHIEF–MADE A BRAVE–EXPEDITIONS AGAINST THE OSAGES–DEATH OF PY-E-SA–PERIOD OF MOURNING–EXPEDITION AGAINST TH...
BRITISH INTRIGUE AGAINST THE FRONTIERS–HATRED OF THE AMERICANS–TREATY OF 1804. By the treaty of Paris, Sept. 3, 1783, Great Britain covenanted to surrender certain western f...
TREATY OF 1804, AND BLACK HAWK’S VERSION. On December 31st, 1804, the President submitted this treaty to the Senate, which ratified it immediately. In justice to Black Hawk, his ...
TREATY OF 1804. That the Indian had many wrongs must not be denied, but that such wrongs should be transferred from those who suffered them to the personal account of Black Hawk, ...
ERECTION OF FORT MADISON–RUMORS OF INDIAN ATTACK–BLACK HAWK JOINS TECUMSEH–RETURNS TO HIS VILLAGE–ATTACKS FORT MADISON–THE SIEGE. The object of the expedition of Lieutenant ...
BLACK HAWK ENLISTS WITH THE BRITISH IN THE WAR OF 1812–DESERTS–FOSTER SON STORY–KEOKUK MADE CHIEF. It was not enough that British intrigue had maintained a reign of terror u...
EXPEDITION OF GOVERNOR CLARK TO PRAIRIE DU CHIEN–LIEUTENANT CAMPBELL’S BATTLE. During the absence of Black Hawk, in 1812 and 1813, Fort Madison fell and considerable trouble...
MAJOR TAYLOR’S BATTLE–BATTLE OF THE SINK HOLE–VARIOUS MURDERS–BRITISH AGENTS WITHDRAWN FROM ROCK RIVER COUNTRY. Disturbances by the Sacs now followed so frequently that Majo...
TREATY OF PORTAGE DES SIOUX, 1815–TREATY OF ST. LOUIS, 1816. At the close of hostilities with England, a quietus to the horrors of Black Hawk’s raids was demanded. The treaty with...
FORT ARMSTRONG BUILT–BLACK HAWK AS A FAULT-FINDER–ANNIHILATION OF THE IOWAS. Black Hawk’s intermittent promises of good behavior and declarations of future tranquility were ...
TREATIES OF 1822-24-25–WINNEBAGO OUTBREAK–ATTACK ON THE BOATS–ARREST AND DISCHARGE. The Sacs and Foxes were also trespassers upon Illinois soil, dispossessing by conquest, a...
THE MILITARY TRACT–PERILS OF FRONTIER LIFE–GATHERING SETTLEMENTS ABOUT BLACK HAWK’S VILLAGE–FRICTION–ATTEMPTED COMPROMISE–CORRESPONDENCE–GAINES AT FORT ARMSTRONG. It m...
COUNCIL–MILITIA ORGANIZED–MARCH TO BLACK HAWK’S VILLAGE–FLIGHT–VILLAGE BURNED–TREATY OF 1831. Once awakened, General Gaines lost no time in bringing about a convention with ...
UNREST–MESSENGERS AND WAR PARTIES SENT OUT–ATTACK ON THE SIOUX–THEY RETALIATE–ATTACK ON THE MENOMINEES–A COUNCIL. The Sioux and Sacs and Foxes had been enemies for generatio...
NE-A-POPE’S MISSION–KEOKUK’S VILLAGE–COUNCIL–BLACK HAWK MOVES DOWN IOWA RIVER AND UP THE MISSISSIPPI TO ROCK RIVER–ATKINSON MOVES UP TO FORT ARMSTRONG. With these cont...
COUNCIL–ATKINSON’S CALL FOR TROOPS–REYNOLDS’ PROCLAMATION–BLACK HAWK DEFIANT–GRATIOT’S JOURNEY. What the intentions of General Atkinson might have been, above his actual ins...
THE MILITIA MOVES TO ROCK RIVER. At Beardstown the forces rapidly gathered. Colonels March and Christy were again placed in charge of the commissary department, but Christy, unabl...
ROSTER–MOVEMENT UP ROCK RIVER BEGUN–THE PROPHET’S VILLAGE BURNED–FORCED MARCH TO DIXON’S FERRY. Prior to that time, several officers had been granted furloughs, and when Black H...
DIXON’S FERRY–PLIGHT OF REYNOLDS’ MESSENGERS–STILLMAN’S DEFEAT. Dixon’s Ferry, now Dixon, Illinois, at the period of this campaign consisted of a ferry, the simple flat-bottomed a...
CALL FOR ADDITIONAL TROOPS–BURIAL OF THE DEAD–ARRIVAL OF ATKINSON–LEAD MINES MILITIA–ERECTION OF FORTS–DODGE’S MARCH TO THE FOUR LAKES COUNTRY. The straggling arrival ...
ATKINSON’S MOVEMENT UP ROCK RIVER–INDIAN CREEK MASSACRE–NARRATIVES. On the 18th, after ten days’ rations had been issued, Atkinson, by order No. 17, directed Whiteside to be in re...
GENERAL PANIC–INDEPENDENT COMPANIES RAISED–ATKINSON’S MARCH CONTINUED–INSUBORDINATION–ARMY DISBANDED–INTERIM REGIMENT RAISED. If Stillman’s defeat spread consternation, the ...
VARIOUS ILLINOIS MURDERS, INCLUDING THOSE OF SAMPLE, PAYNE AND THE ST. VRAIN PARTY. Before recording the actions of this little regiment, or parts of it, all of them importa...
ATKINSON’S MARCH TO MOUTH OF FOX RIVER–DODGE’S MARCH TO MEET HIM–CAPTAIN ILES’ MARCH. On the 29th of May General Atkinson crossed over from Dixon’s Ferry to Ottawa to take u...
CAPTAIN SNYDER’S BATTLE–MURDERS IN THE LEAD MINES COUNTRY–BATTLE OF THE PECATONICA–CAPTAIN STEPHENSON’S BATTLE. Kellogg’s Grove, by reason of the many fights with the Indian...
ATTACK ON APPLE RIVER FORT.[173] On Sunday morning, the 24th day of June, Colonel Strode sent an express of three men, Frederick Dixon, Edmund Welch and one Kirkpatrick, with disp...
ORGANIZATION OF FORCES AT FORT WILBOURN AND DISPOSITION OF SAME–MURDER OF PHILLIPS–MARCH TO DIXON’S FERRY. Returning to the movements of the troops along the Illinois River,...
MARCH TO DIXON’S FERRY–MAJOR DEMENT’S BATTLE. It has already been stated that Major Dement’s battalion was ordered on detached service. Following is a copy of his order: ...
MURDERS NEAR OTTAWA–POSEY’S DIVISION ORDERED FORWARD–ALEXANDER’S DIVISION ORDERED TO PLUM RIVER–HENRY’S DIVISION, WITH REGULARS, MOVED. At 12 o’clock of the 23d Genera...
CONSOLIDATION OF THE DIVISIONS–CAPTAIN DUNN SHOT–HENRY, ALEXANDER AND DODGE DETACHED TO MOVE TO FORT WINNEBAGO–POSEY SENT TO FORT HAMILTON–DISINTEGRATION OF THE ARMY–AL...
FORT WINNEBAGO REACHED–STAMPEDE–HENRY’S TREATMENT OF DISOBEDIENT OFFICERS–BLACK HAWK’S TRAIL TO WESTWARD DISCOVERED–FORCED MARCH–BATTLE OF THE WISCONSIN–AT BLUE MOUNDS....
PURSUIT RESUMED–BATTLE OF THE BAD AXE. [224]On the 20th Alexander received an express from Scott giving particulars of the inefficiency of his army. On the 21st Atkinson and Alex...
THROCKMORTON’S NARRATIVE–ATKINSON’S REPORT–BLACK HAWK’S FLIGHT–CAPTURE–DELIVERY TO GENERAL STREET–COUNCIL. After darkness had finished the battle of the Wisconsin, many of t...
STAMBAUGH’S EXPEDITION. On the 23d of June Col. George Boyd, Agent for the Menominees at Green Bay, wrote Atkinson offering or suggesting the services of the Indians of this agenc...
EXAMINATION OF THE INDIANS–BLACK HAWK A PRISONER. With the exception of Black Hawk’s immediate party, the prisoners were sent to Fort Armstrong, and in a report from General Scott...
SCOTT’S EXPEDITION–TREATY. Allusion to the presence of General Scott in this campaign has been made, but for the purpose of receiving substantial treatment later on was temporaril...
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-sw...
PRISON LIFE–EASTERN TRIP–RETURN–COUNCIL AT FORT ARMSTRONG–BLACK HAWK’S APOLOGY–BLACK HAWK RELEASED. In every way possible for those early days, Keokuk endeavored to make the...
SECOND TRIP EAST–A QUIET LIFE–JULY FOURTH TOAST AT FORT MADISON–INTERVIEW WITH IOWAS–DEATH–BURIAL–HIS GRAVE ROBBED–BONES RECOVERED–CONSUMED BY FIRE–DEATH OF MADAM BLACK...