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Henry readily assented to, and gave the order 
'Charge!' which was obeyed by both men and 
officers in a most fearless manner. All were in- 
tent upon the charge.  We had to charge up a 
rising piece of ground. When we got on the 
top, we then fired perfectly abreast.  They 
could not stand this. They bad to quit their 
hiding place and make good their retreat. 
When they commenced retreating we killed a 
great number. 
"Their   mmander, who, it is said, was 
Napope, was on a white pony on the top of a 
mountain in the rear of his Indians; he certainly 
had one of the best voices for command I ever 
heard. He kept up a constant yell until his 
men began to retreat, when he was heard no 
more. Col. Collins was kept, during the en- 
gagement, in the rear, as a reserve, and to keep 
the enemy from flanking and coming in upon 
us in the rear, which was a very good arrange- 
ment of Gen. Henry. It was now nearly sun- 
down, and still raining, as it had been all the 
evening, but so slow that we made shift to 
keep our guns dry. The enemy retreated 
toward the river with considerable speed. The 
ground they were retreating to appeared to be 
low and swampy, and on the bank of the river 
there appeared to be a heavy body of timber, 
which the enemy could reach before we could 
bring them to another stand.  So Gen. Henry 
concluded not to pursue them any further that 
night, but remain on the battle ground until 
next morning, and then he would not be in dan- 
ger of losing so many of his men, knowing 
that in the dark he would have to lose a num- 
ber; for the Indians would have the timber to 
fight from while we would have to stand in the 
open prairie. [The battle ground was on the 
east side of the northeast quarter of section 24, 
in what is now the town of Mazomanie, Dane 
Co., Wis.] 
"Next morning, July 22, the troops were pa- 
raded and put in battle order on foot, except 
Col. Fry's regiment, and took up the line of 
man~oh tb thl  river, leaving CA1. CJollins' regi 
 
ment to guard the horses and baggage, and take 
care of the wounded.  We marched down to 
the river, which was about one mile and a half 
off; but, before we reached the banks, we had a 
very bad swamp to go through, fifty or sixty 
yards on this side the timber, which stood very 
high on the bank of the river. We now saw 
that Gen. Henry had acted very prudently.  If 
he had attempted to follow them the evening 
before, he would have lost a great.many of his 
men. When we got to the bank, we found they 
had made their retreat across the river during 
the night, leaving a great many articles of 
trumpery behind. We also saw a good deal of 
blood, where their wounded had bled. We now 
returned to the camp, seeing there was no chance 
to follow them this day across the river. 
",We, in the battle (known in history as the 
Battle of Wisconsin Heights), were very fortu- 
nate indeed. We had only one man killed and 
eight wounded; and we have learned since the 
battle that we killed sixty-eight of the enemy 
(but Black Hawk declared afterwards that he 
lost only six), and wounded a considerable num- 
bell, twenty-five of whom they report died soon 
after the battle.  We were now nearly out of 
provisions, and to take up the line of march 
against them, in the condition our horses were 
in, told us plainly that we would suffer for 
something to eat before we could get it. We 
burlied the brave young man, who was killed, 
with the honors of war. It was stated that he 
had just shot down an Indian when he received 
the mortal wound himself. His name was John 
Short, and he belonged to Capt. Briggs' com- 
pany from Randolph Co., Ill. He had a brother 
and a brother-in-law in the same compan, who 
witnessed his consignment to the mother earth. 
The wounded were all well examined and none 
pronounced mortal. We continued this day on 
the battle ground and prepared litters for the 
wounded to be carried on. We spent this day 
in a more cheerful manner than we had done 
any other day since we had been on the cam- 
yaign., We felt a little satisfaction for our toils, 
 
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