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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
But I must not depart from the regular order of things, and anticipate events before their occurrence. In due time the old prairie battalion reached Gull Prairie, and its members repaired to their respective homes and resumed their former occupations. Notwithstanding the frequent and appalling alarms that were ringing in our ears, and the oft repeated calls for soldiers, all these efforts failed to put on foot another campaign, or to raise another grand army.
RESULTS OF THOSE CAMPAIGNS.
Many valuable results were connected with those campaigns. Those soldiers were thereby afforded a much needed relaxation from their hard, laborious farm drudgery at their homes. ' By calling all the able-bodied men together, we learned the great military strength of the country and where our dependence lay in case of a foreign invasion. And as one important branch of their education had been neglected quite too long, it was highly necessary to bring them together and impart to them that much needed instruction.
Another valuable result was, that not one hostile Indian has ever since been seen this side of Fort Dearborn (now Chicago). It also furnished an abundance of rich and exciting matter for filling the columns of newspapers, but unfortunately there were no newspapers at that time, this side of Detroit. It also furnished a very fruitful topic of conversation among the people. That conversation was varied and interesting, according to the then existing circumstances and prospects.
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