2 wounded, 5th Inft.
1 captain, 5 privates Dodge’s Bat. mounted.
1 lieutenant, 6 privates, Henry’s.
1 private wounded, Alexander’s.
1 private, Posey’s.
“I have the honor to be, with great respect,
“Your obedient servant,
“H. Atkinson, Brevet Brig-Gen., U.S.A
“Major-Gen. Macomb, Com.-in-Chief, Washington.”
Whipped so thoroughly that no more fight remained in him, Black Hawk, at the close of August 2d, fled to the woods of the North with his sons and principal officers, hoping that he would be protected by his whilom friends, the Winnebagoes, when once in the fastnesses of the Dalles of the Wisconsin, far from the scenes of conflict; but General Street, in calling the Winnebagoes to the Agency on August 4th, had anticipated and frustrated every plan and move of the defeated and fugitive Indians. From the Agency he sent in pursuit of them the one-eyed Decori and Chaeter, who caught first Black Hawk and the Prophet, and later the Sioux caught Ne-a-pope. The most authentic account of that capture seems to be the one made by David McBride, and is to be found in Vol. 5 of the Wisconsin Historical Collections, page 293, verbose, but in the main correct: