Post by spencer on Oct 21, 2009 17:37:53 GMT -5
WAR RELICS... a short sword or bowie knife used by Captain Clark's company at the Battle of the Peckatonica, in the Black Hawk war, manufactured by a blacksmith in the country, presented by Chas. T Olmstead, a private in Clark's company, who used it on that occasion; also a tomahawk taken from an Indian killed in said battle by Mr. Olmstead and presented by him.
[from volume VII of Wisconsin Historical Collections, page 21]
[from volume VII of Wisconsin Historical Collections, page 21]