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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
I soon discovered that no one of them was very anxious to be a participant in those bloody conflicts. Many of them supposed that their neighbors might go to the war as well as not to go. Some proposed to leave the territory immediately for the east, as report said a few families really did leave during the summer on that account. Some proposed the immediate erection of a log fort, but feared that the red skins might be upon us before the first tree could be felled. One man declared- that he would not go to the war but for his supposition that he could not be cleared by simply paying a fine, but that the penalty would be imprisonment. One man was sorely afflicted with lameness; another man had removed one of his boots and was sitting on the ground examining his great toe, which had recently received a bad cut by a sharp ax. One man said that it was of no consequence what became of him, but oh, what would become of his wife and children! I had two commissions which I had received from one of the New England governors, which had given me rank and distinction in the military line, and served me very well in that country, which commissions I was willing to throw in either as a gift or a loan, but I did not propose to go or in any way be a participant in the affair further than being a spectator, because I considered those sensational reports as being altogether too unreliable to be entitled to one moment's serious consideration and too preposterous for any sane man's belief. And there ended the first act of this awe-inspiring drama. '
Michigan
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