24 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



Menominees and Sioux. Black Hawk had been arrested in 1828 for 

 supposed complicity in attacking some boats in 1827. Then in 1832 he 

 was set upon by some white men, while in the woods hunting, and badly 

 beaten. He was then called the " Old Chief" of the Sacs and Foxes. 

 Keokuk, and others of his tribe, on July 15, 1830, at Prairie du Ohien, 

 had made a treaty of sale of the Sac and Fox lands, seeing the inev- 

 itable, and had agreed to remove to lands farther west. Black 

 Hawk had nothing to do with it, and was much offended at it. His 

 village was at that time the Sac village, on a point of land formed 

 by Rock Eiver and the Mississippi, in Illinois. Black Hawk and his 

 people refused to leave their lands, which had been sold by Keokuk, 

 claiming that he was no party to the treaty, but were afterwards off of 

 them for a time. In the spring of 1831 he and his people recrossed the 

 river to the old cornfields, and took possession of their land, then occu- 

 pied by whites. 



The militia were called out in May, 1831, and the regulars brought 

 from Saint Louis, and a treaty was made with Black Hawk and his 

 band on June 30, 1831. 



In the spring of 1832 hostilities were begun between Black Hawk and 

 the whites, and the Black Hawk war followed. 



The then far West became alarmed. Illinois was the center of interest. 

 General Scott was sent with the regulars to Chicago (Fort Dearborn), 

 and Governor Reynolds called out several companies of volunteers. The 

 point of rendezvous was for a time at John Dixon's Ferry, who was 

 called by the Indians Nachusa or White Head, across Rock River (now 

 the town of Dixon, with about 4,000 inhabitants), Illinois. Here were 

 camped, amongst other officers under command of General Atkinson, 

 Lieut. Col. (afterwards President) Zachary Taylor, Lieut, (afterwards 

 major and general) Robert Anderson, Lieut, (afterwards Senator) Jef- 

 ferson Davis, Lieut, (afterwards major-general) David Hunter, and Pri- 

 vate (afterwards President) Abraham Lincoln of Captain Iles's company 

 of Illinois Mounted Rangers. Major Anderson called upon President 

 Lincoln in April, 1861, after the evacuation of Fort Sumter. Mr. Lin- 

 coln said, u Major, do you remember of ever meeting me before?" " !No, 

 sir ; I have no recollection of ever having had that pleasure." " My 

 memory is better than yours, then," replied Mr. Lincoln. " You mus- 

 tered me into the United States service as a high private of the Illinois 

 volunteers at Dixon's Ferry in the Black Hawk war." (Chicago His- 

 torical Society's Publications, No. 10, p. 15.) 



On the 27th of August, 1832, Black Hawk and the Prophet, after 

 capture at Bad Axe, were delivered to General Street at Prairie du 

 Chien, by two Winnebago Indians, Decorie and Chaetar, and the war 

 was ended. 



While at Prairie du Chien, along with other prisoners, in charge of 

 Lieut. Jefferson Davis, en route to Jefferson Barracks at Saint Louis, 



