[168]. Later captain.
[169]. Hist. Jo Daviess Co., 288, and the Galenian.
[170]. Charles Eames and Stephen P. Howard, who declined to “fort up,” were plowing on Apple River. Indians appeared, and they escaped over the river bank, but the horses were boldly taken. The loss, among others, was reported to the fort.
[171]. The prints of the day have the name George Eames, but correspondence with Hiram B. Hunt and N.B. Craig, relatives, indicates that Charles is correct.
[172]. Galenian.
[173]. A very spirited account of this battle, signed “Flack,” appears in Wakefield’s History, minutely detailing the actions of the Indians.
[174]. It has been said that this fort was named after Col. James Johnson, of the Fifth Regiment, but the burden of authority is in favor of A.S. Johnston.
[175]. My Own Times.
[176]. Captain Harrison Wilson, in the war of 1812, was an ensign in Captain James Craig’s company of frontier riflemen. Fourth Regiment. His father, Alexander, was a member of the first Legislature of Illinois Territory, and drafted with his own hand the first code of English-speaking law for that territory. Gen. James H. Wilson, of Wilmington, Del., who represented the U.S. Army at King Edward’s coronation, and Col. Bluford Wilson, of Springfield, Ill., late Solicitor of the U.S. Treasury, are sons of Capt. Harrison Wilson, who died in 1853. He fought by the side of Jefferson Davis against Black Hawk at the battle of the Bad Axe, while his son, Gen. James H. Wilson, captured the President of the Southern Confederacy in the Civil War. Another coincidence must be noticed: Maj.-Gen. John A. McClernand was a private in Capt. Harrison Wilson’s company, and during the recent war with Spain Lt.-Col. Edward J. McClernand, son of Gen. McClernand, was adjutant to Gen. J.H. Wilson while the latter occupied Cuba.
[177]. Later Lieut.-Governor.