The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life
whole confederated tribes, articles of subsistence as follows:
Thirty-five beef cattle, twelve bushels of salt, thirty barrels of
pork and fifty barrels of flour, and cause to be delivered for the
same purposes, in the month of April next, at the mouth of the
lower Ioway, six thousand bushels of maize or Indian corn.
Article XI. At the request of the said confederated tribes, it is
agreed that a suitable present shall be made to them on their
pointing out to any United States agent, authorized for the
purpose, the position or positions of one or more mines, supposed
by the said tribes to be of a metal more valuable than lead or
iron.
Article XII. This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on
the contracting parties as soon as the same shall be ratified by
the President of the United States, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate thereof.
Done at Fort Armstrong, Rock Island, Illinois, this twenty-first
day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-two, and of the Independence of the United
States the fifty-seventh.
WINFIELD SCOTT,
JOHN REYNOLDS.
SACS.
Kee-o-kuck, or He Who Has Been Everywhere.
Pa-she-pa-ho, or The Stabber.
Pia-tshe-noay, or The Noise Maker.
Wawk-kum-mee, or Clear Water.
O-sow-wish-kan-no, or Yellow Bird.
Pa-ca-to-kee, or Wounded Lip.
Winne-wun-quai-saat, or The Terror of Men.
Mau-noa-tuck, or He Who Controls Many.
Wau-we-au-tun, or The Curling Wave.
FOXES.
Wau-pel-la, or He Who is Painted White.
Tay-wee-mau, or Medicine Man (Strawberry).
Pow-sheek, or the Roused Bear.
An-nau-mee, or the Running Fox.
Ma-tow-e-qua, or the Jealous Woman.
Mee-shee-wau-quaw, or the Dried Tree.
May-kee-sa-mau-ker, or the Wampum Fish.
Chaw-co-saut, or the Prowler.
Kaw-kaw-kee, or the Crow.
Mau-que-tee, or the Bald Eagle.
Ma-she-na, or Cross Man.
Kaw-kaw-ke-moute, or the Pouch (Running Bear).
Wee-shee-kaw-kia-skuck, or He Who Steps Firmly.
Wee-ca-ma, or Good Fish.
Paw-qua-nuey, or the Runner.
Ma-hua-wai-be, or Wolf Skin.
Mis-see-quaw-kaw, or Hairy Neck.
Waw-pee-shaw-kaw, or White Skin.
Mash-shen-waw-pee-tch, or Broken Tooth.
Nau-nah-que-kee-shee-ko, or Between Two Days.
Paw-puck-ka-kaw, or Stealing Fox.
Tay-e-sheek, or the Falling Bear.
Wau-pee-maw-ker, or the White Loon.
Wau-co-see-nee-me, or Fox Man.
In presence of R. Bache, Cap. Ord. Sec. to the Commission; Abrm.
Eustis, Alex. Cummins, Lieut.-Col. 2d Infantry; Alex. R. Thompson,
Major U.S. Army; B. Riley, Major U.S. Army; H. Dodge, Major W.
Campbell; Hy. Wilson, Major 4th U.S. Inf.; Donald Ward, Thos.
Black Wolf, Sexton G. Frazer, P.H. Galt, Ass’t Adj.-Gen.; Benj. F.
Pike, Wm. Henry, James Craig, John Aukeny, J.B.F. Russell, Isaac
Chambers, John Clitz, Adj. Inf.; John Pickell, Lieut. 4th Art’y;
A.G. Miller, Lieut. 1st Inf.; Geo. Davenport, Ass’t Quar.
Mas.-Gen. Ill. Mil.; A. Drane, Aeneas Mackay, Capt. U.S. Army;
I.R. Smith, 1st Lieut. 2d Inf.; Wm. Maynadier, Lieut. and A.D.C.;
I.L. Gallagher, 1st Lieut. A.C.S.; N.B. Bennet, Lieut. 3d Art’y;
Horatio A. Wilson, Lieut. 4th Art’y; H. Day, Lieut. 2d Inf.; James
W. Penrose, Lieut. 2d Inf.; J.E. Johnston, Lieut. 4th Art’y; S.
Burbank, Lieut. 1st Inf.; I.H. Prentiss, Lieut. 1st Art’y; L.I.
Beale, Lieut. 1st Inf.; Addison Philleo, Thomas L. Alexander,
Lieut. 6th Inf.; Horace Beall, Act’g Surgeon U.S. Army; Oliver W.
Kellogg, Jona. Leighton, Act’g Surg. U.S. Army; Robert C.
Buchanan, Lieut. 4th Inf.; Jas. S. Williams, Lieut. 6th Inf.; John
W. Spencer, Antoine LeClaire, Interpreter.
To the Indian names are subjoined marks.[272]
On November 11, 180 men, the remains of the six companies sent out
with Scott, arrived at Norfolk on the steamboat Potomac, Captain
Hubbell commanding: Capt. John Monroe, Fourth Artillery; Capt.
Elijah Lyon, Third Artillery; Capt. Upton S. Fraser, Third
Artillery; Capt. Patrick H. Galt, Fourth Artillery, with Lieutenants
John Pickell, H.A. Wilson, W.A. Thornton, Joseph E. Johnston,
Charles O. Collins, Edwin Rose and James H. Prentiss.[273]
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Footnote 251:
Davidson & Stuve, Ills., p. 406. Brown Hist. Ills., p. 373.
Footnote 252:
Wentworth’s, Ft. Dearborn, p. 31.
Footnote 253:
Lt. Humphrey Marshall, later General and a Member of Congress from
Kentucky, came to Chicago with Scott.–Early Chicago, Ft. Dearborn,
p. 31.
Footnote 254:
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.
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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:
“Executive Office, Detroit, May 22, 1832.
“MAJOR-GEN. JOHN R. WILLIAMS.
“Sir:–By dispatch received at this office from Chicago and St.
Joseph, it seems that the Indians have assumed an attitude of
hostility towards the frontier settlements in that quarter.
“I am satisfied that the public safety requires immediate
movements on the part of the militia of the Territory.
“You are authorized to raise such a number of volunteers as in
your opinion may be necessary for co-operating with Brig.-Gen.
Brown, who has rendezvoused at Jonesville.
“When you arrive there, you will take such steps as may then in
your opinion be necessary.
“STEVENS T. MASON,
“Acting Governor of the Territory.
“The Quartermaster-General will issue to Major-Gen. John R.
Williams such stores, ammunition and arms as he may require.
“STEVENS T. MASON,
Acting Governor of the Territory.
Detroit, May 22, 1832.”
An order for the Division Quartermaster to call on the military
storekeeper for 200 pounds of rifle powder, 100 pounds of bar lead,
1,000 musket flints, 1,000 rifle flints and cartridge boxes was
thereupon made by General Williams, as well as a call for the
volunteers authorized by the acting Governor, who, in a letter
attached, limited the number to 300.
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Henry Dodge was at this time acting as Colonel of Michigan militia,
under a commission dated October 15th, 1829. Major-General Williams,
just mentioned, was the Major-General in command, under appointment
the same year, and notice of the appointment was sent him by Lewis
Cass in the following letter:
“Washington, March 10, 1829.
“Dear Sir:–I have the pleasure to inform you that your nomination
as a major-general has been confirmed by the Senate. I shall now
confidently rely upon your exertions to place our militia on a
respectable footing, and I am well satisfied that this confidence
will not be misplaced. Larned and Stockton are the brigadiers.
“Sincerely your friend,
“LEWIS CASS.”
Following General Williams’ call for volunteers, an order on the
Division Quartermaster for 3,000 rations of bread and salt pork, to
last 300 men ten days, was issued, and the work of recruiting
proceeded, but slowly. To the call for volunteers, not a volunteer
responded. On the 23d, pursuant to peremptory orders to call out
such companies or parts of companies of the state militia as would
insure a force of 300 men, General Williams at once issued his
second order for the First Regiment and Major Davis’ battalion of
riflemen and the city guards to assemble at Ten Eyck’s, on the 24th,
at 10 o’clock. Meantime he had engaged to forward to General Brown
200 stands of arms and bring to Ten Eyck’s 200 additional stands for
distribution at 2 o’clock P.M. The militia arrived and General
Williams requested a voluntary enrollment. Capt. Joseph F. Marsac
and his men of the First Regiment, and the city guards, under Capt.
Isaac Rowland, and Captain Jackson’s troop of cavalry and parts of
some companies of cavalry volunteered, to the number of 100, leaving
200 to be drafted from the others present, some 400 in number. From
these he drafted the required number and organized them. One ration
was at once issued, but no blankets could then be issued, as they
had not arrived. During the night and on the morning of the 25th
parts of Davis’ battalion arrived, which Williams was induced to