Post by Robert Braun on Jul 10, 2002 15:46:54 GMT -5
Peter Parkinson's recollection in 1880:
"This battle was a terriffic one; it was a hand to hand encounter; steel clashed against steel, and the woods resounded with the most terriffic yells of the savages. The conflict was deadly and descisive. The Indian tomahawk and spear were pitted against the white man's bayonet and breech.
But in the end the bayonet and breech were triumphant. The last Indian was killed and scalped, and not one left to tell old Black Hawk, their chieftain, the sad end of this disaster.
"This battle was a terriffic one; it was a hand to hand encounter; steel clashed against steel, and the woods resounded with the most terriffic yells of the savages. The conflict was deadly and descisive. The Indian tomahawk and spear were pitted against the white man's bayonet and breech.
But in the end the bayonet and breech were triumphant. The last Indian was killed and scalped, and not one left to tell old Black Hawk, their chieftain, the sad end of this disaster.