HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY.                                97 
and laid in ambush on the east shore.  The small muslin flag kept standing
by the few 
unsuspecting Foxes were fired into from the Menomonees who lingered in this
vicinity; but 
ambuscade and their best warriors lost their nothing is now left to preserve
the graves from 
scalps.                                    sacrilege, and soon the iron horse
will course 
After the fight the Manomonees and Sioux o'er the bones of those red men,
long since gone 
came up here to have a dance over the scalps. to their happy hunting grounds.

The Indians presented a horrid appearance.   After the Menomonee massacre,
a warrior of 
They were painted for war and had smeared  that tribe was found in the old
Catholic grave- 
themselves with blood and carried the fresh  yard and buried. He had no wounds
and it is 
scalps on poles. Some had cut off a head and thought that when the Foxes
attacked the Indi- 
thrust a stick in the throttle and held it on high; ans-on the island, he
got away and ran so fast 
some carried a hand, arm, leg or some other that he had to lean against the
wall to rest, and 
portion of a body, as trophies of their success. that he rolled over and
died. 
They commenced to dance near the mound over  The Indian agency was removed
this year to 
the slough, but Col. Taylor soon stopped that Yellow River and the Rev. Mr.
Lowrey ap- 
by driving them across the main channel on to pointed agent. It was afterwards
removed to 
the Islands, where they danced until their own  Fort Atkinson, Iowa. The
mission buildings 
scalps went to grace the wigwams of the Sauks can be seen now on Yellow river,
about five 
and Foxes.                                 miles from its mouth. 
In April, of 1831, 1 was in the hospital at"        I.-THE WINNEBAGOES.

Fort Crawford, when, through the influence of  The Nation which displaced
the Sacs and 
Col. Taylor and Dr. Beaumont, I got my dis- Foxes upon the Wisconsin river
and its contig- 
charge. When I was convalescent, which was uous territory, including what
is now  Green 
about June, a war party of Sank and Fox Indi- county, was the Winnebago.
 It is now 250 
rtsnty                                  wame tpefrmitheiragrt oftthecountry5t

ans came up from their part of the country to years since the civilized world
began to get a 
the bluff north of Bloody Run, from where they  knowledge of the Winnebagoes-the
"men of 
watched the Menomonees, who were encamped  the sea," as they were called,
pointing, possibly, 
on an island opposite Prairie du Chien, a little to their early emigration
from the shores of the 
north of the old fort. One night the Menomo- Mexican gulf, or the Pacific.
 The territory 
nee camp was surprised by the Sank and Fox now included within the limits
of Wisconsin, 
war party, and all in the camp killed except an and so much of the State
of Michigan as.lies 
Indian boy, who picked up a gun and shot a 
Fox  brave through  the  heart and  escaped.  Af- n of ack nw ad  Lake iuro
n ,  ie arly 
ter-masareig, capin  ad mtiltig t eof Mackinaw and Lake Huron were, in early

ter massacreing, scalping and mutilating the time, inhabited by several tribes
of the Algon- 
bodies, the Fox Indians got into canoes and quin race, forming a barrier
to the Dakotas, or 
paddled down the river past the fort, singing Sioux, who had advanced eastward
to the Mis- 
their war songs and boasting of their exploits. sissippi. But the Winnebagoes,
although one 
Soldiers were sent to punish them, but I believe of the tribes belonging
to the family of the 
they failed to catch them. In the morning I latter, had passed the great
river, at some un- 
helped to bury those killed. There were twenty- known period, and settled
upon Winnebago 
seven bodies, all killed with the knife and tom- lake. Here, as early as
1634, they were visited 
ahawk, except the Fox brave shot by the boy. by John Nicolet, an agent of
France, and a 
They were buried in three graves on the land- treaty concluded with them."*
Little more was 
ing below the present Fort Crawford, and until ---- BtefilsH~oyofteD~ocy
fteNrh 
withlii a few years the spot Was mr~akedi by a e~, 1i, 63"uteg fedsHs~y
fteDso~r.fte2rh