The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-24


fences The old chief sent out his sons
and others of his family and tribe. and
went himself, riding night aud day to
give the alarm. Some needed it; others
, were incredulous. 1t was spring time.
and the farmers were busy blowing and
seeding, and unwilling to leave their
fields. Shaubanee found the families of
Hall, Davis and Pettigrew residing to.
gether In one house on Indian Creek, q
tributary of Fox River, some fifteen miles
from Ottawa, and in the vicinity of
what is now Munsontown. They were
earnestly warned by the chief, as he ap-
preached them on his painting horse. He
told them to flee to Ottawa, where thew
could be protected; that no time was to
be lost, rs Black Hawks warriors might
attack them at any moment But they
could not realize their danger, and he
left, beseeching them anxiously and with
tears Had the whites been the chiefs
own kindred, he would not hare been
more sollcjt0uS for their safety MANY
lives were saved by these warnings
! Black Hawk recrossed the Mississippi
early in April, 1882, and he and his war
rlors were soon upon their track of desc
lation. AS in all Indian warfare, no mer-
cy was shown to sex, age or condition.
After some fighting in the Rock River
country, some seventy of these savages, in
their course of havoc, descended on the
/ little settlement on Indian creek, SO re-
Gently and earnestly warned of impend.
ing danger and in the open day, mas.
sacred the before mentioned families Of
Hall, Davis and Pettigrew. All the
slain, fifteen persons-,nen, women, and
children, w ere scalped, and their bodies
mutllated and left exposed in the most
shocking manner Three persons present
escaped death. One, little son of Mr.
Hail. sprang down the bank of the
creek, breaking his arm in the fall,
and hid in the brush and flood wood. and
after much suffering reached Ottawa.
The other two, daughters of Mr.. Hall,
aged fifteen and seventeen respectively.
had fed to their chamber, and concealed
themselves in bed, where, after the de-
structlon, they were discovered
by two young Indians, who
claimed the girls for wives, and 20 secure
their prizes hurried them up the Rock
River into Wisconsin. Rewards for their
rescue were offered by General Atkinson !;
and the girls, after captivity of fearful
experience, better imagined than describ-
ed, ani fortunately the fate of but few.
were found, purchased and returned, by
the chiefs of the Winnebagoes, employ
ed by Colonel Grati0t, and furnished bv
him with articles Of Indian finery, and
valuable property for the ransom of the
captives.
Soon after Stilman's defeat, near Rock
River, Shaubanee rode into camp at
Dixon, then called Dixon's Ferry, the
headquarters Of the army, In company
with the Indian Agent, Pierre Menar0,
son Of a we'll known pioneer of the same
name-the first Lieutenant Governor of
Illinois Some OF the militia there, being
excited by liquorsdeclared that they had
come 70 the Rock River country to kill
Indians, and that they would kill Shau-
bance, and demanded of Menard why he
brought an Indian into camp. He re-
Piled that the Chief was one Of the best
and most active friends of the whites
and that he would defend him at the
hazard OF his life. Mr.. John Dixon, the
hrst white settler of the Rock River Val
ley, whose house was Headquarters,
rushed quickly to the rescue of Shau-
banee, and took him to his family room,
closed him in, and guarded the door
tor his safety. Governor Reynolds made
Dixon's house his headquarters, and here
he and other leaders met Shaubanee.
1t is worthy Of remark, that when
Black Hawk and his braves went up the
Rock River Valley, before military oper-
atoms had far advanced they called at
the house Of the good man Dixon, whom
the Indians called Ma chu-sa, (white hair
head,) and conyersed with him in the
most friendly manner That venerable
gentleman, now nearly ninety years of
age, recently informed the writer that
among other officers at his house, in the
Black Hawk war, were two young Lieu
tenants of the United States Regulars:
Robert Anderson, the hero Of Fort Sum
ter, and Jefferson Davis, x.President of
the so called Confederate States,-then
friendly associates, little dreaming of
their future antagonism in desolating
civil war ~ @au ea aH b"a
After the capture of Black Hawk and
his son Nascuskuk loud Thunder), tho
/ prophet Wabokieshiek white CLOUDY.
/ Naopope, brother of the prophet. and
second in command to Black Hawk.
Wieshiek, sort of chief adjutant, Po
mahoe, veteran brave, and Poweshiek.
adopted son of the prophet and leading
young warrior who, with others, were
taken, as hostages to Washington and
Fortress Monroe and upon the close of
the war, the national admin ,tration rs-
served from sale, for the use of Shau-
bance during his life, the beautiful grove
In De Kalb county known as Shaubanee's
Grove, his place Of geneaI residence for
many years. Here he had fine spring
and delightful woodlands, and frre his
family raised corn ami male sugar, .n,i