[133]. The statement by Matson that one Mike Girty was connected with the Indian Creek massacre is incorrect.
[134]. Matson’s “Memories of Shau-be-na.”
[135]. Matson.
[A]. That part of Morgan County subsequently organized into Cass County in 1837.
[136]. Kee-was-see was another defendant, Armstrong 368. Richard M. Young was the judge, Thomas Ford the prosecutor, and Hamilton and Bigelow attorneys for defense at that time.
[137]. Also served at Bad Axe.
[138]. The direction thought to have been taken by the enemy and mentioned herein was erroneous. He had followed Rock River to a point near its source.
[139]. ... “The muster roll is not on file, but the records show that the company was mustered out at the mouth of Fox River, May 27, 1832, by Nathaniel Buckmaster, Brigade Major, to General Samuel Whiteside’s Illinois Volunteers.” Letter Gen. R.C. Drum, Adj. Gen. U.S. Army, in Vol. I, p. 96, of Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln.
[140]. The enlistment was for sixty days.
[141]. Matson’s Memories of Shau-be-na.