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Accault, Michael,
Explorer; was with La Salle when the latter discovered the Mississippi River.
Later, with Louis Hennepin (q. v.), in the summer of 1679, he was sent by La Salle to explore the sources of the Mississippi.
They went up the river as far the Falls of St. Anthony, where they were captured by Indians, but were rescued by Daniel Duluth, a French officer.
In a few months they succeeded in reaching the tradingstation at Green Bay.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allouez , Claude Jean 1620 - (search)
Allouez, Claude Jean, 1620-
One of the earliest French missionaries and explorers of the country near the Great Lakes; born in 1620.
After laboring among the Indians on the St. Lawrence several years, he penetrated the Western wilds and established a mission on the western shores of Lake Michigan, where he heard much about the Mississippi River, and made notes of what he learned concerning it. He explored Green Bay, and founded a mission among the Foxes, Miamis, and other tribes there.
A mission begun by Marquette at Kaskaskia, Ill., Allouez sought to make his permanent field of labor; but when La Salle, the bitter opponent of the Jesuits, approached in 1679, he retired.
Returning to the Miamis on the St. Joseph's River, he labored for a while, and died, Aug. 27, 1689.
The contributions of Father Allouez to the Jesuit relations are most valuable records of the ideas and manners of the Indians.
Attakappa Indians,
A tribe found on the borders of the Gulf of Mexico, west of the Mississippi River, in southern Louisiana and eastern Texas.
The Choctaws named them Attakappas, or Man-eaters.
The French were the first Europeans who discovered them; and the Attakappas aided the latter in a war with the Natchez and Chickasaws.
When Louisiana.
was ceded to the United States in 1803, there were only about 100 of this nation on their ancient domain, near Vermilion Bayou, and they had almost wholly disappeared by 1825.
What their real name was, or whence they came.
may never be known.
Their language was peculiar, composed of harsh monosyllables.
Belmont, battle at.
Just before Fremont was deprived of his command (see Fremont, John C.) he ordered General Grant to move a co-operative force along the line of the Mississippi River.
It was promptly done.
A column about 3,000 strong, chiefly Illinois volunteers, under Gen. John A. McClernand, went down from Cairo in transports and wooden gunboats to menace Columbus by attacking Belmont, opposite.
At the same time another column, under Gen. C. F. Smith. marched from Paducah to menace Columbus in the rear.
Grant went with McClernand.
The troops landed 3 miles above Belmont, Nov. 7, 1861, and while they were pushing on the gunboats opened fire upon Columbus.
General (Bishop) Polk, the commander, sent General Pillow over the river to reinforce the little garrison at Belmont.
A sharp battle ensued, and the Nationals were victorious; but, exposed to the heavy artillery at Columbus, the post was untenable.
Giving three cheers for the Union, the Nationals set fire to the Confe
Bird's Point,
Opposite Cairo, was fortified early in 1861 by the National troops.
It was on the west.
side of the Mississippi River, a few feet higher than Cairo, so that a battery upon it would completely command that place.
The Confederates were anxious to secure this point, and to that end General Pillow, who was collecting Confederate troops in western Tennessee.
worked with great energy.
When Governor Jackson, of Missouri.
raised the standard of revolt at Jefferson City, with St
Cairo, occupation of
The city of Cairo, Ill. (population, 1900, 12,566), is situated near the extremity of a boatshaped peninsula, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, 175 miles below St. Louis.
It is a point of great importance as the key to a vast extent of navigable waters, and to it National troops were sent at an early period in the Civil War. Both the national government and Governor Yates, of Illinois, had been apprised of the intention of the Confederates to secure that position, hoping thereby to control the navigation of the Mississippi to St. Louis, and of the Ohio to Cincinnati and beyond.
They also hoped that the absolute control of the Mississippi below would cause the Northwestern States to join hands with the Confederates rather than lose these great trade advantages.
The scheme was foiled.
Governor Yates, under the direction of the Secretary of War, sent Illinois troops at an early day to take possession of and occupy Cairo.
By the middle of