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Subject: [IASCOTT] 1910-To Davenport for Distribution
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:06:09 EST

Chapter 5 cont.

TO DAVENPORT FOR DISTRIBUTION.

Writing of this engagement Black Hawk, in his autobiography, tells of the
disposition of the spoils of war.  He first emptied the cargo of whiskey,
"bad medicine," several barrels, in the river; next, to quote him, "I found a
box full of small bottles and packages which appeared to be bad medicine
also, such as the white medicine men kill the white people with when they get
sick, this I threw into the river."  The ammunition intended for Fort Shelby
fell into Black Hawk's hands, also boat loads of guns, clothing and
provisions which were brought to the Fox village on the site of Davenport for
distribution.  The same day of the Campbell's island fight, Fort Shelby, at
Prairie du Chien, surrendered to an overwhelming force of British and
Indians, the name changed to Fort McKay and the command given to Captain
Thomas G. Anderson.

The National Intelligencer of August, 1814, states the number of killed and
wounded in this engagement to have been thirty-six.  Capt. Campbell and Dr.
Abram Stewart, surgeon's mate, were also wounded, the former seriously.
 After this disaster and the return of the survivors to St. Louis, another
and larger expedition was fitted out, the object of which was to punish the
Indians at Rock island and to establish and maintain a fort at or near that
place.  The detachment was under the command of Brevet Major Zachary Taylor,
Seventh United States infantry, afterward president of the United States, and
consisted of 334 officers and men (regulars, militia and rangers).  There
were only forty of the regular troops and it is presumed that these belonged
to the Seventh United States infantry.

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