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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
After the men had received suitable instructions, it then being near night, they were temporarily dismissed. Agreeably to orders the men returned the next morning and reported for duty. After some hasty preliminaries the column was put in motion and the Prairie "battalion" of a dozen good and true soldiers had taken up their line of march for the coming scenes of blood and carnage.
AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE.
The transactions of that morning, with all its associations was a profoundly impressive scene; it was one of the many great startling events, which crowded one upon another in such rapid succession during that summer, which made the year so memorable in the history of the Territory.
The cholera made its first appearance on this continent about the same time, which with the fears about the war, kept those feeble, scattered infant settlements in Kalamazoo and St. Joseph counties in a perpetual state of alarm and intense excitement.
As the "battalion" moved forward nothing worthy of note occurred until it had marched about three miles, when there was a halt for water, at which time an altercation took place between two of the soldiers, named Adams and Martin, respecting a gun; neither of them owned the gun, but each of them claimed to have borrowed it of the owner. Then there were high words and fierce threatenings. Isaac Barnes very kindly suggested that they might settle the dispute by retiring a little ways from the company and try a few alternate shots at each other with the said contested weapon. Both men and
ammunition were of too much value at that time to waste in that manner, and Martin maintained possession of the gun.
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