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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
And further proof to the same effect is to
be found in the fact that no legal proceedings were ever instituted against the Gull Prairie boys for their non-compliance with those boisterous demands.
COLONEL BROWN'S COMMISSION.
At the time of the commencement of the Saukie war, Dr. Brown was a resident of Prairie Ronde. He was then about thirty years of age. He was not only young, but he was intelligent, ambitious, enterprising, and energetic in all his undertakings. Besides his medical practice, he opened up and perfected a most splendid farm. But he never had any knowledge, or training, or experience relating to military affairs previous to that time. When the news of the Saukies' depredations reached us, the wise and knowing ones were fearfully apprehensive that we would be instantly involved in the same, or a worse calamity, and that immediate steps should be taken to avert the impending calamity, which could only be accomplished by an overwhelming military force; and to render such a force effective, it must have a principal leader. Then immediately all the eyes on Prairie Ronde were turned towards Dr. Brown, and the name and title of "Colonel Brown, Colonel Brown" was first heard in the land, as we supposed, by the general consent of Dr. Brown, and his neighbors, but without any regular appointment or commission from any legal source, and many supposed that he never had any commission. I am now happy to have it in my power to disabuse the public mind of all doubts and misapprehensions in regard to that matter.
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