VOL. 1. NO. 27.
j? OUGHTBLACK HAWK
PROPOSED REUNION OF SURVIVORS
CF THE SAC AND FOX WAR.
But Few Are Left of the Little Army '
That Wrented Northern Illinois from
the Savages Sixty Years Ago—Dlstin- I
guinhcd Indian Fighters of That Time.
There are twenty odd survivors of the
Black Hawk war. These ancient veterans
have arranged to hold a celebration of the I
sixtieth anniversary of the battle of Kel I
logg’s Grove at Lena, Stephenson county.
Ills., on the 25th of next .June, and for
many reasons the occasion promises to be
one of more than ordinary interest.
The conquest of the Sacs and Foxes will I
always l*e memorable, not so much becauhe
of savage forays and swift reprisals us lie-
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MONUMENT TO THE SLAIN,
cause of surrounding circumstances and
of the sulwtequent eminence of several who
participated in the campaign. The imme
diate result of Black Hawk's overthrow
was the settlement of the Rock river val
ley. Towns sprang up where the loghouses
of pioneers had heretofore existed, ami
cities like Rockford and Dixon remain
permanent monuments to the genius and <
daring of such hardy frontiersmen as Ger
manicus Kent and Thatcher Blake, who
viewed the broad panorama of forest and
field skirting the banks of the beautiful
stream, ami viewing resolved to possess.
Sixty years! Not a long period, surely,
in the history of a race, a motion or the
great struggle for an idea, yet it means
much to the individual man. it is ample
space In which to make a name, to chal
lenge fortune, to grasp and relinquish
leadership, and to review from the heights
of serene old age the turbulence and tri
umphs of a vigorous prime.
