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A Brief and Interesting History Of this
Celebrated War.

of the Sacs and Foxes ut st. Louis in
1904, the Indians ceded all their lands
in Illinois to the United States for the
paltrv annuity of $1,000 and goods to
the value of S., 234.50. In a treaty
made in 1922, covering vsrious matters,
clause WIS introduced confirming the
cession OF 1901 Still the Government
did not demand actual possession of
these lands. In 1880, Keokuk, Black
Hawks rival, negotiated q treaty, in
which the Government recognized him
as the head chief OF the Sacs and Foxes,
ard in which he clearly coded all the
lands in ques tiou. Black Hawk, who
had always opposed any cession of ter
ritory to tie whites, was not present at
this convention, and he and his follow
ers, constituting minority of the tribe,
but really representing the portion
most concerned, the actual occupants
of the great village at Rock Island, pro-
tested against the validity of this and
the previous cessions.
Returning in April, 1881, from the
winters hunt in the North. Black
Hawks band found that their chiefs
former friend, an Indian fur-trader at
Rock Island, had purchased of the Gov
eminent the ground on which this
ancient village stood, in the forks of the
Mississippi and Rock river, and with
his associate spectators were preparing
to cultivate the Indian field of some 700
acre adjoining the village. It seems
ma velous that Black Hawk could so
far restrain his people as to persuade
them to submit to compromise by
which they yielded possession of half
this field for the season to the spec
uj;;to,s But the latter were not sat
Is Ell, and both parties soon grew
irrifa5et Gov. Reynolds, of this State,
WAS asked to interfere. Soon after the
IL iit:a were called out. On the 7th of
June. Gen. Gaines, of the regular army,
commanding at Fort Armstrong, on
Ro:k Island, summoned the Indians to
q council, when he commanded them to
leave the east side OF the Mississippi.
Black Hawk refused; but as the State
militia, to the number OF about 1900,
undar command of Gen. Joseph Dun
can, drew near, he saw that his few
hundred warriors would be over
whclmed, and on June a, during the
night, the Indians deserted their village,
which the Americans q few days later
utterly destroyed. On June 80, Black
Hawk and his party signed treaty Ivy
which for the i;rst time he individually
joined in the REIMBURSEMENT of the
lands in dispute. The next winter
found him and LII, bad in destitute,
starving condition, owing to their being
driven from their cornfields at season
when it was too late to plant elsewhere.
La the spring, in defiance of the treaty,
he and 360 warriors with their families,
crossed the Mississippi and passed up
Rock river, to plant corn, as they said,
in the Winnebago country, in Southern
Wisconsin. Gen. Atkinson, in COM
maud of the regular troops at Fort
Armstrong, warned them to return.
Gov. Reynolds again called out the
militia, and placed them under command
of Gen. Samuel Whiteside Nothing
seriously occurred until the 18th of
day, when the rash conduct OF party
OF 275 volunteers under Mai. Stillman
provoked fight with some sixty of
Dlack Hawks warriors, near the mouth
Of The kishwaukee, q few miles south
OF Rockford. The whites were panic
stricken, and fed with the loss of eleven
uaH. SO slow had been the movement
Of the militia that already their time of
enlistment had nearly expired, and. not
liking this taste of Indian war, they be-
c,ono mut'nous, and had to be dis
charged. Gen. Atkinson could do little
WIKI lis mere handful of regular troops,
so he mtcerched his company at Dixon
ASA remained there, while Black Hawks
followers, reinforced by o few Winnie
D%Go, Ottawa and Pottawatomie braves,
roaned over the country committing
0ritra*es on defenseless settlers, a pum-
Der az whom were killed. Affairs grew
: rious. Gov. Reynolds called for
:, ,."N mi tia. Ia July the regulars and
nj it;a. ali urder tie chief command of
t'ar. " in>on, drove Black Hawk up
h""k j or anu across 70 the Wisconsin
ri:rr. w,,re Gen. James D. Henry, the
c!ii'f h.'r0 of this war, in command of
iH;'-.l, If Illinois militia. overlook him
Il Wisconsin Heights, and inflicted the
first serious punishment the Indians had
suffered. Over fifty warriors were
killed, and the entire body of them was
badly demoralized. Escaping across
the Wisconsin with great loss, they fed,
leaving their dead and dying and aban-
doned articles along their trail. The
whole army followed in hot pursuit,
and on Aug. 2, Gen. Henry again struck
their main force and drove them into
the Mississippi at the mouth Of the Bad
Axe. Here the regulars and the rest
of the army joining in, soon cut them
to pieces. Gen. Winfield Scott took
command five days later, on Aug. 7,
1871, and not long afterward negot ated
/ treaty Of peace. Black Hawk and
NO Of his sens, with several Of his
,rinclpal warriors, were held as host
:.,< }or a time. After detention IS
.',rrres. Monroe until June 5 Of ti
ct year, he was released. During hi
q ttvity he was taken to all the 1rin-
.-;'mt cities, where his fate elected
s,oi deal OF sympathy. After his re
Urn he lived peaceably with his tr,bs
Iowa until his death, Oct. 3, 1893, il:
re 10Th year of his age. He was buried
81 I.wavllle, iowa.
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