. The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents. sion as given in Wau-Bun; Nellie (Kinzie) Gordon; Harris Kinzie Jr.; Mother and pappoose; Heald with massacre relics; tree and Pullman house ; ; ; late Calumet Club House; Hotel; tee-a, a signer of the treaty of 1821; War-dance, August 18, 1S35; ; 212. 15 The GiiiGAGO Massacre or 1512 IN TWO PARTS AND AN APTIvNDIX. TART , AugiST Fifteenth, isi!>—Narrativks ok thk Massacre. PA
. The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents. sion as given in Wau-Bun; Nellie (Kinzie) Gordon; Harris Kinzie Jr.; Mother and pappoose; Heald with massacre relics; tree and Pullman house ; ; ; late Calumet Club House; Hotel; tee-a, a signer of the treaty of 1821; War-dance, August 18, 1S35; ; 212. 15 The GiiiGAGO Massacre or 1512 IN TWO PARTS AND AN APTIvNDIX. TART , AugiST Fifteenth, isi!>—Narrativks ok thk Massacre. PART II. Historical and BiograiHicai,—IIow thic Fort and City WERE Begun, and Who were the Beginners. —John Baptiste Pointe de —Fort Dearborn in thic War —The Whistler I*—Thi-: Kinzie —The Wells and Heald —The Bones of John —Letters From A. H. —Billy Caldwi-ll, The —Indian War —The Bronze Memorial Group. PART P^IRST. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1-11li:i:.\Tl 1, I IIv niorninc^ of Fort Dearbornslatal day dawiiL-d l)rij;lit and clearovur Lake Michigan and thesandy flat. The reveille donbt-less was sonnded loeforc sun-rise;and one can imagine the rattleof the drum and scream of thefife as they broke tlie dewy stillnessand floated away, over the sand-spitand out on the lake ; across theriver to the Kinzie house and itsoutbuilding, the Ouillemette house ;and up stream to the Indian en-campments, large, dark and lower-ing. Quite possibly the tune thenprescribed was the same as thatnow used for the drum-fife reveille,together with the words that haveattached themselves to it of late j-ears: Wake ye lazy soldiers, rouse up and be killed,Hard tack and salt horse, get your gizzard filled, Then go to fighting —fire your forty round—Fall dead and lay there buried under ground. If this time-honored (and much hated) tune has comedown to us from so long, the words had on that
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