HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
He moved on in front of his battalion a short 
distance further, when he came to the main Sac 
trail of Black Hawk's whole army, which ap- 
peared to be about two days old. 
"Capt. Early, who commanded a volunteer 
independent company, and had got in advance 
this morning, called a halt; so did Major Ewing 
with his battalion. Then Major Ewing sent back 
one of his staff officers for the main army to call 
a halt for a few minutes. He, with Major Ander- 
son, of the infantry, Capt. Eariy and Jonathan 
H. Pugh, went a little in advance, when Major 
Anderson, with a telescope, took a view across 
the lake, as we had now got to Lake Koshko- 
nong. [The army entered what is now Jeffer- 
son county, very nearly where, in going north, 
its south line is crossed.by the Chicago & North- 
western Railway. The trail, after leaving the 
southeast quarter of section 35, in township 5 
north, of range 13 east, ran nearly due north to 
the southeast corner of section 26, in the same 
township. and range, where the army reached 
the lake in what is now the town of Koshko- 
nong]. They then discovered three Indians ap- 
parently in their canoes. 
4'Major Ewing went himself and informed Gen. 
Atkinson what discovery was made, and re- 
quested Gen. Atkinson to let him take his bat- 
talion around through a narrow.defile that was 
between two of those lakes, where we supposed 
the Indians were. By this timeour scouts, who 
had taken the trail that led off on our left, re- 
turned, bring ng with them live white men's 
scalps. They followed the Indian trail until it 
took them to a large Indian encampment that 
they had left a few days before. They reached 
it; the scalps were sticking against some of the 
wigwams; some of them were identified; but I 
do not recollect the names of any, except one, 
which was said to be an old gentleman by the 
name of Hall. 
"Major Ewing then marched his battalion 
about a mile, where the pass on the side of the 
lake appeared so narrow that he dismounted his 
men and had the horses all tied, and a few men. 
 
left to guard them. The rest of us marched on 
foot about one mile through. a narrow defile on 
the [east] bank of the Koshkonong lake. This 
was considered a dangerous procedure, but Major 
Ewing, who was in front with Major Anderson, 
would have been first in danger. lie now found 
that we were getting too far in advance of our 
horses; so Major Ewing sent a part of the men 
back for them. When we mounted our horses, 
we were joined by Capt. Early and his inde- 
pendent corps. We then marched some distance 
around the [Koshkonong] lake and went in be- 
tween two of them, in a narrow defile until we 
found another deserted encampment. We now 
saw clearly that the Indians were gone from the 
Koshkonong lake; so, the next thing to be done 
was to find in which direction they had steered 
their course. 
"'Gen. Atkinson having been re-enforced by 
Gen. Alexander, took up his line of march, ar- 
riving at the burnt village on the 6th of July. 
That evening, Gen. Posey's brigade, in company 
with Col. Dodge's squadron, joined Atkinson. 
Col. John Ewing and his regiment came within 
a mile and a half of the main army and en- 
camped. On the 10th, Gen. Atkinson sent Col. 
Ewing with his regiment down Rock river to 
Dixon's; Gen. Posey, with the rest of his brig- 
ade, was dispatched to Fort Hamilton; while 
Col. Henry and his brigade, Gen. Alexander's 
brigade and Col. Dodge's squadron were sent to 
Fort Wini'ebago, now Portage, Columbia Co., 
Wis., for provisions. Atkinson dropped down 
a short distance from the burnt village and 
built a stockade fort, which he called Fort 
Koshkonong. It was located on the south side 
of Rock river in the eastern outskirts of the 
present village of Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co., 
Wis. Alexander returned from Fort Winne- 
bago by the direct route, while Dodge and 
Itenry took a more easterly one, striking Rock 
river at a point where there was a small Win- 
nebago village, now Hustisford, Dodge county, 
which point was reached July ] 8. Informa- 
tion was here obtained that Black h~awk was 
 
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