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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 2: early army-life. (search)
een Bay, under the command of Major Whistler. The Winnebagoes, in council, agreed to deliver up the leading men in the several outrages committed against the whites. Accordingly, Red Bird, Le Soleil, and two others, the son and brother-in-law of Red Bird, were given up, there; and two more, afterward, at Prairie du Ohien, belonging to the Prairie La Crosse band. They bound themselves to hold a council in the spring for the determination of the boundary-line; and to permit the miners of Fever River to proceed peaceably in their diggings, till the true boundary was determined. Although, after seeing the Sacs and Foxes, Menomonees, Sioux, etc., my romantic ideas of the Indian character had vanished, I must confess that I consider Red Bird one of the noblest and most dignified men I ever saw. When he gave himself up, he was dressed, after the manner of the Sioux of the Missouri, in a perfectly white hunting-shirt of deer-skin, and leggins and moccasins of the same, with an elegant
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Illinois, Galena, Jo Daviess County, Illinois (search)
Galena, Jo Daviess County, Illinois a city of 10,000 pop., on Fevre River, 6 miles from its entrance into the Mississippi. Very extensive lead mines are found in this vicinity. The Fevre River is navigable to this point, and steamboats make regular trips from here to various points up and down the Mississippi. Connected to Chicago by the Western Union Railroad. Galena, Jo Daviess County, Illinois a city of 10,000 pop., on Fevre River, 6 miles from its entrance into the Mississippi. Very extensive lead mines are found in this vicinity. The Fevre River is navigable to this point, and steamboats make regular trips from here to various points up and down the Mississippi. Connected to Chicago by the Western Union Railroad.