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REPORT ON THE PICTURE GALLERY. 87

side. The Indiana appear, after their first fire, to have dropped
their guns and resorted to the spear, tomahawk and knife; but
from the result, we must conclude these to be but a weak defense
against the bayonet. DODGE lost but one other man, a brave
fellow named WELLS. Every Indian of the party was killed-
not one being left, say our accounts, to tell BLACK HAWX
whether they found 'soft' or 'hard shells.' The number of the
enemy was ascertained by the dead, and found to be seventeen.
Of the party of Gen. DoDcta in this sharp pursuit and sharper
conflict, many were boys under twenty, andnone that had ever be-
fore been under an enemy's fire. The conflict, like all those of the
bayonet, was of the shortest-not lasting, say the reports, over
two minutes after the words were given to "charge," showing
that there could have been no skulking or flinching in the ranks
of either party.
" The annals of war give us few if any instances at all, of a
conflict more equally or more firmly maintained-of such rapid
decision and fatal results. The names of the whole party are
given. The officers were Gen. HENRY DODGE, and Lieuts.
CHARLES BRACKEN, D. M. PARKINSON, PASCHAL BEQUETTE,
- PORTER, Surgeon ALLEN HILL, who had been drafted by
the Colonel as one to take charge of horses, but who seized his
next in file, a weakly looking lad of 17, and made him exchange
employments with him.
"The murder of the five men at SPAFFORD'S farm took place
on the'l4th of June-that of the farmer near the fort, on the
15th, and the atonement for these acts of daring was made at
Pekatonica on the 16th, an instance of sharp military practice
highly honorable to DODGE and his heroic command."
I1 and 111. Doctors KANE and PERCIVAL.-T~~ career of
the former is too well known, and the latter has been fully no-
ticed in the preceding volume of the Society's Collections, so
that notices of them in this connection are not necessary.
IV. VIEW OF THE ERST IIOUSE IN MADISON.--AS early
as 1832, the site of Madison attracted the attention of I-Ion.
JAMES DOTY; and in the spring of 1836, in company with
D.