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Black Hawk Indian War
On the 12th of April, 1832,
soon after our arrival at Rock Island on a
visit to relatives, (the family of Col. Geo.
Davenport) a steamboat came down from Galena
with officers to Fort Armstrong, for the
purpose of laying in supplies and medical
stores for a brigade then being formed at
that place. One regiment, composed
principally of miners, who had abandoned
their mines and came in to offer their
services as soldiers in the field, were
unanimous in the election of Henry Dodge as
Colonel. They had long known him as a
worthy, brave and accomplished gentleman,
the soul of honor, and hence would be an
intrepid soldier. Read
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Among
the officers on this trip was Dr. A. K.
Philleo, well known to Col. Dodge as a
social gentleman, a skilled physician and an
accomplished surgeon, who had accepted the
position of surgeon at his urgent request,
with a proviso: Being editor of the "Galenian,"
(the only paper printed in the town) he
considered the position a very important
one, as it was the only paper within
hundreds of miles of the seat of war, and
the only one on the Mississippi above Alton,
Ill.; hence he must procure a substitute or
decline the appointment of surgeon. Having
made his acquaintance after he had learned
that we had been engaged in newspaper life,
he insisted that we should take a position
on the "Galenian" for a few weeks, or until
the close of the war, so that he could
accept the offer of Col. Dodge, and seeing
that he was a great favorite among the
officers, and anxious to go to the field, we
accepted the position and accompanied him to
Galena the same evening.
Here we found an infantry regiment,
commanded by Col. J. M. Strode, composed
principally of miners and citizens of
Galena, which had been hurriedly organized
for home protection, whilst that of Col.
Dodge, being well mounted, were making
preparations to take the field. After taking
charge of the "Galenian" we made the
acquaintance of Col. Strode, and found him
to be a whole-souled Kentuckian, who advised
us to enroll our name on the company list of
Capt. M. M. Maughs, and as our time would
mostly be devoted to the paper, he would
detail us "Printer to the Regiment," by
virtue of which appointment we would become
an honorary member of his staff. We retained
our position on the paper and that on the
staff of the Colonel throughout the war, and
was made the recipient of dispatches of the
regular movement of the army, its skirmishes
and battles from officers of the regular
army as well as that of the volunteers, from
which we made our weekly report, and from
these data we have made up most of our
history of the war.
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Autobiography of Black
Hawk or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak,
Copyrighted By J. B. Patterson, 1882
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