HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
Mineral Point; Fort Defiance, five miles south- 
east of Mineral Point; Mound Fort, at Blue 
Mounds; Fuiik's Fort, near Gratiot's Grove; and 
Fort Hamilton, at Wiota. Other forts were at 
Plattville and White Oak Springs. Most of the 
forts were simply yards, with close fences made 
of upright, ten-foot slabs. There were houses 
in the yards to which settlers removed their 
families and household goods. It is the opinion 
of 0. H. P. Clarno   that the worst of the 
war was inside the forts. The children of the 
various families were soon arrayed against each 
other in a struggle in which an armistice was a 
thing unknown, and the mothers not only as- 
 
sisted them, but also engaged in such hostilities 
on their own account that a dispute as to the 
ownership of a frying-pan has sometimes been 
known to lead to the coniversion of that pacific 
utensil into a weapon of war.  *        * 
"Galena and all the villages of Iowa county 
furnished volunteers; and, after a few engage- 
ments, Black Hawk s forces were overpowered, 
and he himself was taken prisoner before ihe 
arrival of Gen. Scott, who, ia eighteen days (a 
rapidity of travel that was thought remarkable), 
had transported nine companies of artillery 
from the seaboard around the lakes to Chicago." 
 
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