[277]. Annals of Iowa, May, 1902.
[278]. Page 164, Vol. 3, Smith’s Wis. Foot note by W.R. Smith, the author: “I can vouch myself that I came up the Mississippi in a steamboat, on board of which was Black Hawk, his wife and son and a number of his warriors, in July, 1837, and that Black Hawk was apparently particularly fond of brandy, as he often indulged himself with it at the bar on board of the boat; but to this act, it must be confessed, he was always invited by the white passengers.”
[279]. Copied from “The Iowa News,” Vol. 1, No. 29, June 6, 1838.
[280]. Bilious fever.
[281]. The Indian trader, beloved of Black Hawk and his family. Fulton, p. 117.
[282]. Magazine of American History, Vol. XV, No. 5, p. 494 et seq.
[283]. It has been said these were given him respectively by Pt. Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Ex-Pt., and the City of Boston. If the latter made such a present it must have been during his last visit east, because he did not go to Boston during his first trip.
[284]. Fulton, on page 228, insists that the head was first stolen, but being frightened, Turner threw it into his saddle-bags and ran away to return later and procure the body; but as a discrepancy exists as to his dates, it is possible he was mistaken in other details.
[285]. A story has been told that Capt. Lincoln’s first command was answered by being told to “go to the devil.”
[286]. Another volunteered at Beardstown, April 29th, and another at Dixon’s Ferry, May 19, making the total strength of the company seventy men.