Life of a Woman Pioneer As Illustrated in the Life of Elsie Strawn Armstrong 1
Life of a Woman Pioneer As Illustrated in the Life of Elsie Strawn Armstrong 1
James Elder Armstrong
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Moreover Governor Reynolds had received word from General Gaines that he had sufficient troops to handle the situa- tion. Fort Armstrong was on an island in the Missis- sippi River nearly opposite Saukenuk and General Gaines doubtless knew the situation better than Gover- nor Reynolds. In the Governor's call for volunteers he referred to the Sauks as the British Band although 18 years had elapsed since the Sauks had allied themselves with the British troops in Canada. To the young men it meant,... taking up the war against the same enemy as their 2John Marsh, Pioneer, by George D. Lyman. ELSIE STRAWN ARMSTRONG 89 fathers had fought in 1812. Another cause for the intensity of feeling against the Sauks besides the fact that they had fought against the United States was the attitude of the territorial government at the close of the war with the British in 1814, when a bounty was paid out of the territory treasury for Indian scalps, like bounties on wolf scalps. Perry Armstrong says in his book 'it is a fact, that on the 24th day of December, 1814, being the very day the treaty of Ghent was con- cluded, our territorial legislature, then in session at Kaskaskia, passed an act which was approved by Ni- nian Edwards, the territorial governor and became the law entitled, 'An Act to promote retaliation upon hos- tile Indians, and to encourage the bravery and enter- prise of our fellow citizens.
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