PART II.
Historical and Biographical—How the Fort and City were Begun, and Who were the Beginners.
APPENDIX.
| [A.]—John Baptiste Pointe de Saible. |
| [B.]—Fort Dearborn in the War Department. |
| [C.]—The Whistler Family. |
| [D.]—The Kinzie Family. |
| [E.]—The Wells and Heald Families. |
| [F.]—The Bones of John Lalime. |
| [G.]—Letters From A. H. Edwards. |
| [H.]—Billy Caldwell, "The Sauganash." |
| [I.]—Indian War Dance. |
| [K.]—The Bronze Memorial Group. |
[PART FIRST.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST FIFTEENTH, 1812.
THE morning of Fort Dearborn's fatal day dawned bright and clear over Lake Michigan and the sandy flat. The "reveille" doubtless was sounded before sun-rise; and one can imagine the rattle of the drum and scream of the fife as they broke the dewy stillness and floated away, over the sand-spit and out on the lake; across the river to the Kinzie house and its outbuilding, the Ouillemette house; and up stream to the Indian encampments, large, dark and lowering. Quite possibly the tune then prescribed was the same as that now used for the drum-fife reveille, together with the words that have attached themselves to it of late years: