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Identifier: historyofgreenec01clap (find matches)
Title: History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Clapp, Clement L., 1852- (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: Chicago, Donnelley, Gassette & Loyd
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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thisforce to assist Heald in defending Fort Dearborn. He was too late.Every means for its defense had been destroyed the night before, andarrangements were made for leaving the fort on the morning of the 15th. It was a warm bright morning in the middle of August. Indicationswere positive that the savages intended to murder the white people; andwhen they moved out of the southern gate of the fort, the march waslike a funeral procession. The band, feeling the solemnity of the occa-sion, struck up the Dead March in Saul. Capt. Wells, who had blackened his face with gun-powder in tokenof his fate, took the lead with his band of Miamis, followed by Capt.Heald, with his wife by his side on horseback. Mr. Kinzie hoped by hispersonal influence to avert the impending blow, and therefore accompaniedthem, leaving his family in a boat in charge of a friendly Indian, to betaken to his trading station at the site of Niles, Michigan, in the event othis death. 144 HISTOKY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOlfcl.
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aisiH HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 145 The procession moved slowly along the lake shore till they reachedthe sand-hills between the prairie and the beach, when the Pottawattamieescort, under the leadership of Blackbird, filed to the right, placing thosehills between them and the white people. Wells, with his Miamis, hadkept in the advance. They suddenly came rushing back. Wells exclaim-ing, They are about to attack us; form instantly. These words werequickly followed by a storm of bullets, which came whistling over thelittle hills which the treacherous savages had made the covert for theirmurderous attack. The white troops charged upon the Indians, drovethem back to the prairie, and then the battle was waged between fifty-four soldiers, twelve civilians and three or four women (the cowardlyMiamis having fled at the outset) against five hundred Indian warriors.The white people, hopeless, resolved to sell their lives as dearly as possible.Ensign Ronan wielded his weapon vigorously,

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  • bookpublisher:Chicago__Donnelley__Gassette___Loyd
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