Then it was the log cabin of John Dixon took on a national reputation, which its memory has ever since maintained, and which must stand by it so long as our country endures, and then, indeed, the account books took on an importance seldom acquired in the affairs of bookdom. Then the tide turned, too, from lawyers and “suckers” to soldiers, and the flower and chivalry of the State and Nation went forth to concentrate at Dixon’s Ferry to contest the advance of Black Hawk and his mercenaries, who had fought the Americans at every opportunity from the beginning of the century.
LIEUT. J.J. ABERCROMBIE. U.S.A
LIEUT. GEORGE WILSON. U.S.A
COL. NATHAN BOONE.
LIEUT. ROBERT ANDERSON, U.S.A.
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