Illinois Catholic Historical Review (1918 - 1929) volume Ii Number 4
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Corbin, deserves to be recorded. She had from the first expressed the determination never to fall into the hands of the savages, believing that their prisoners were invariably subjected to tortures worse than death. When, therefore, a party came upon her to make her prisoner she fought with desperation, refusing to surrender, although assured by signs, of safety and kind treatment. Literally, she suffered herself to be cut to pieces, rather than become their captive." Sergeant Thomas Burns also... deserves special mention in con- nection with the massacre. Though a civilian at the time of the mas- "■^lUd. p. 84. See also Quaife's Chicago and Northwestern, p. 229. "Quaife'g Chicago and the Old Northwest, p. 207. "Hurlburt quotes the following from the letter of Mrs. Callus: "The home which my father lived was built before the massacre of 1812. I know this from the fact that 'White Elk,' an Indian Chief, and the tallest I ever saw, was pointed out to me as the savage that dashed out the brains of the children of Suky Corbin against the side of this very house." Chicago Antiquities, p.
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