Post by Larry Koschkee on Jan 5, 2003 12:58:27 GMT -5
During the Winnebago War of 1827 and the Black Hawk War we note references to fortification called "blockhouses," "picket stations," "palisades" and "stockades."
Construction material for these structures were predominately logs, timbers and possibly stone.
I recently finished reading Cyrenus Cole's book I Am a Man --- The Indian Black Hawk for the third or fourth time. It was published by the State Historical Society of Iowa in 1938. Marking the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Passing of MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK.
On page 154 of his book Cole cited Governor Reynolds arriving at Dixon's Ferry after Stillman's Run ...wrote a call for two thousand new volunteers. Before daylight, also, he sent messengers down river to urge General Atkinson to make all possible speed with the regulars and the supplies. When the general arrived on the seventeenth of May, he "ordered a fort of turf to be erected on the north side of Rock River, opposite Dixon, in which to store the provisions and protect them".
Another reference to sod construction was in Holford's History of Grant County, 1900, p 543.
Another prominent comer in 1832 was Gen. George W. Jones, who settled near Sinsinawa Mound. Two other men, Lowell and Maxey, who had settled near the mound, were killed by the Sacs in 1832. During this war Captain McCoy raised a company and built a fort, which consisted of a wall of sod built around the house of Christian Eversoll.
Are there additional accounts of sod fortification in this era that you can make me aware of?
Thanks
Larry Koschkee
Construction material for these structures were predominately logs, timbers and possibly stone.
I recently finished reading Cyrenus Cole's book I Am a Man --- The Indian Black Hawk for the third or fourth time. It was published by the State Historical Society of Iowa in 1938. Marking the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Passing of MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK.
On page 154 of his book Cole cited Governor Reynolds arriving at Dixon's Ferry after Stillman's Run ...wrote a call for two thousand new volunteers. Before daylight, also, he sent messengers down river to urge General Atkinson to make all possible speed with the regulars and the supplies. When the general arrived on the seventeenth of May, he "ordered a fort of turf to be erected on the north side of Rock River, opposite Dixon, in which to store the provisions and protect them".
Another reference to sod construction was in Holford's History of Grant County, 1900, p 543.
Another prominent comer in 1832 was Gen. George W. Jones, who settled near Sinsinawa Mound. Two other men, Lowell and Maxey, who had settled near the mound, were killed by the Sacs in 1832. During this war Captain McCoy raised a company and built a fort, which consisted of a wall of sod built around the house of Christian Eversoll.
Are there additional accounts of sod fortification in this era that you can make me aware of?
Thanks
Larry Koschkee
