. Contemporary American biography . roit he was attached to the command ofColonel Cummings, and embarked for Fort Dearborn, the site of Chicago. Almost immedi-ately after leaving Detroit the cholera broke out, and with such violence that the steamerstopped twelve miles below the entrance to Lake Huron, and the whole command went onshore. The next morning only two soldiers out of one hundred and two reported for duty, andconsiderably more than half that number died. Keyes had the cholera, but recovered withdifficulty, and was able to travel by land back to West Point. Having joined his regiment
. Contemporary American biography . roit he was attached to the command ofColonel Cummings, and embarked for Fort Dearborn, the site of Chicago. Almost immedi-ately after leaving Detroit the cholera broke out, and with such violence that the steamerstopped twelve miles below the entrance to Lake Huron, and the whole command went onshore. The next morning only two soldiers out of one hundred and two reported for duty, andconsiderably more than half that number died. Keyes had the cholera, but recovered withdifficulty, and was able to travel by land back to West Point. Having joined his regiment atFortress Monroe, he went with it to Fort Moultrie, Charleston harbor, and served throughoutthe nullification troubles which arose out of the refusal of South Carolina to pay duties, andafterward as acting and full aid-de-camp to General Scott from October, 1833, until the sum- * The portrait of General Keyes accompanying this biography was engraved from a photograph taken in 1873,when he was sixty-three years and six months ; I
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