History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . y several circumstances. In the sev-eral expeditions made up the river before that time, mention ismade of the Des Moines river and rapids, but no mention of a forttill Madison is reached. Again, about 1813, Gov. Edwards fur-nished the War Department with a long table of distances fromPrairie du Chien down, in which Madison, tlie head of the rapids,the foot of the rapids, Des Moines river, are all named, but noth-ing about a fort. And so we conclude, and so state, as veritable histo
History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . y several circumstances. In the sev-eral expeditions made up the river before that time, mention ismade of the Des Moines river and rapids, but no mention of a forttill Madison is reached. Again, about 1813, Gov. Edwards fur-nished the War Department with a long table of distances fromPrairie du Chien down, in which Madison, tlie head of the rapids,the foot of the rapids, Des Moines river, are all named, but noth-ing about a fort. And so we conclude, and so state, as veritable history, that,instead of having been built one hundred and eighty years ago by HISTORY OF HANCOCK COUNXr. 381 the French, and named Johnson^ that fort was erected during ourwar with Great Britain, bj our own soldiery and by command ofour own Government, in 18J4:; and that Fort Edwards ^a.^ alsobuilt and occupied the same year, after the destruction of theformer, and named after the Governor of Illinois Territory; andthat Capt. Zachary Taylor, afterward President of the UnitedStates, was the builder of them CHAPTER YIII. BIOGRAPHICAL. MUCK-AH-TAH-MISH-E-KA-AH-KE-AK. Referring to the foregoing State History, page S-i, for a generalaccount of the Black Hawk war, we deem a more particular accountof that noted cliieftain proper in this place. Many of the citizensof Hancock county were more or less engaged in that struggle, orinterested in it from its proximity to them; and besides, there wasa tradition that he was born within tlie limits of the county, uponCamp creek. For this there was probably no good foundation. That Black Hawk was a man of genius and bravery cannot bedenied. He fought, and fought bravely, for what he deemed hisrights. But when, at the battle of Bad-Axe, he was conquered andmade prisoner, his spirit was broken, and he yielded to inexorablefate. He was carried a prisoner to Washington, and on a tourthrough the Eastern States, and then returned to his tribe beyon
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