262 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



360. Passing the Grand Cliute, witli bark canoe, Fox Riv»r. Painted in 1835. 



(No plate.) 



361. View of Mackinaw, Lake MicMgan, a United States outpost. Painted in 1836. 



(Plate No. 264, page 161, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



Mr. Catlin was frequently at Mackinaw in 1834 and to 1836. 



362. View in the Cross Timbexs, where General Leavenworth died, on the Mexican 



borders. Painted in 1834. (No plate.) 



Since writing the above an express has arrived from the encampment which we 

 left at the mouth of False Washita with the melancholy tidings of the death of Gen- 

 eral Leavenworth, Lieutenant McClure, and ten or fifteen of the men left at that 

 place. This has cast a gloom over our little encampment here, and seems to be re- 

 ceived as a fatal foreboding by those who are sick with the same disease; and many 

 of them, poor fellows, with scarce a hope left now for their recovery. 



It seems that the general had moved on our trail a few days after we left the 

 Washita, to the "Cross Timbers," a distance of fifty or sixty miles, where his disease 

 at last terminated his existence ; and I am inclined to think, as I before mentioned, 

 in consequence of the injury he sustained in a fall from his horse when running a 

 buffalo calf. My reason for believing this is, that I rode and ate with him every day 

 after the hour of his fall ; and from that moment I was quite sure that I saw a differ- 

 ent expression in his face from that which he naturally wore; and when riding by 

 the side of him two or three days after his fall, I observed to him, '-'General, you have 

 a very bad cough." " Yes," he replied, "I have killed myself in running that devilish 

 calf; and it was a very lucky thing, Catlin, that you xiainted the portrait of me before 

 we started, for it is all that my dear wife will ever see of me."* — G. C, June, 1834. 



363. View on Lovsrer Missouri ; alluvial banks falling in, with their huge cotton- 



woods, forming raft and snags, six hundred miles above Saint Louis. 

 Painted in 1832. (No plate.) 



364. View on Upper Missouri; the "Blackbird's grave," where "Blackbird," 



chief of the Gmahas, was buried on his favorite war horse, which was 

 alive ; eleven hundred miles above Saint Louis. Painted in 1832. 

 (Plate No. 117, page 5, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



* General Henry Leavenworth was native of Connecticut, born December 10, 1783. He was a lawyer 

 by profession. He was appointed from New York, captain, Twenty-iifth Infantry 25th April, 1812; 

 transferred to Twentieth Infantry 17th May, 1815 ; majorHSTinth Infantry 15th August, 1813 ; lieutenant- 

 colonel rifth Infantry 10th February, 1818; transferred to Sixth Infantry 1st October, 1821; colonel 

 Third Infantry 16th December, 1825; died 2l8t July, 1834. 



Brevet rank. — Brevet lieutenant-colonel 15th July, 1814, for distinguished service at the battle of 

 Chippewa ; brevet colonel 25th July, 1814, for distinguished service at Niagara Falls ; brevet brigadier- 

 general 25th July, 1824, for ten years' faithful service in one grade. He commanded an expedition 

 against the Arickasee Indians on the Upper Missouri, in 1822-'23. He saw much service on the frontier 

 against the Indians. Fort Leavenworth (when in Kansas) was founded by him, and the city of Leav- 

 enworth, Kans., named for him. He established several other posts on the frontier. Mr. Catlin was 

 attached to his staff in 1834, in a volunteer capacity. General Leavenworth died at Camp Smith, not 

 far from Cross Timbers, Indian Tenitory, with bUious fever. He was a man universally beloved by 

 those in his command, both -for his unassuming manners and for the mildness and clemency of his dis- 

 position. At the time of his death he was in command of the left wing, Western Department. His re- 

 mains were removed to New York City, where they now lie. 



He was described, in April, 1834, as a " plain-looking old gentleman, tall, yet graceful, though stooping 

 under the weight of perhaps three-score winters ; affable and nnassundug in the society of his brother 

 officers ; mild and compassionate toward those under his command, combining most happily the dignity 

 of the commander with the moderation and hximauity of the Christian, and the modest and urbane de- 

 portment of the scholar and the gentleman. All love him, for all have acce.ss to him ; and none that 

 know hira can help but love him." A son, Jesse H. Leavenworth, graduated at West Point, July 1, 

 ] 830 ; was in the Fourth United States Infantry ; served in the Sac and Fox war in the Second Infantry ; 

 resigned, 1836; was colonel of Second Colorado Infantry (Union) in the war of the rebellion.— T. D. 



