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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 6: Fort Crawford, 1828-29. (search)
uisite timber for the repairs he found among the hackmatack, cedars, and other varieties of timber that grow near the Menomonee, or Red River. Lieutenant Davis was camped ten miles from the mouth of the Menomonie, and just below the mouth of the Chippewa, the first stream that empties into that river. When the timber was rafted, the oxen and outfit were placed upon it, but the swift stream sucked it into a side current of the Chippewa river. The raft was broken up, several of the oxen drownChippewa river. The raft was broken up, several of the oxen drowned, and the whole work had to be done over again. In consequence of this accident it was called the Beef Slough, and is so named to this day; but from 400 to 500 millions of logs pass yearly through it now. Four miles from where Lieutenant Davis logged in the wilderness is Menomonee, a city of 7,000 inhabitants. Where he cut and banked the timber a railroad now runs. A Western historian, whose name was not communicated when the newspaper slip was sent me, mentions Lieutenant Davis thu