The 10th Wisconsin In Alabama

From the diary of Miss Priscilla Larkin...:

"The 10th Wisconsin Regiment are at last stationed, in our little village, We received intelligence to day of a glorious victory at Richmond...".

Source - Map of middle and east Tennessee and parts of Alabama and Georgia

The 10th Wisconsin Infantry History:

"...the Tenth Regiment as rear guard, brought through the last trains from Huntsville to Stevenson.
We find the following in the table of casualties prepared by Adjutant General Gaylord:

Killed.—At Mud Creek, Ala., August 22.— Company J—Privates Thos. Denlan, G. W. Hancock and Henry Reed.  At Larkinsville, Ala.—Company F— Private Theo. Helgus.

At Stevenson, the rebels attempted to prevent the leaving of the trains; the Tenth Regiment bringing up the rear, secured the final departure of the troops, and arrived at Nashville on the 5th September.

Henry Hay's "Christmas" Present

Hay's Journal Entry for December 26, 1789, in Fort Wayne:

Source

James Abbott, the father of Elizabeth (Betsey) Abbott Baby, 1777-1812, "gave" Henry Hay "his daughter Betsy over the bottle."

On Wast Constant!

Colin of the ninth concession: a tale of Scottish pioneer life in eastern Ontario (1903):

Chapter I, Auld Peggy's Story:

"....husband hed deserted her an' ran aff wit' a bold-faced hussy tae a place in the States that they ca'd Wast Constant [Wisconsin]...."

Duel At Mackinac

A story found in the Memoir of Jean Baptiste Faribault.......

"Mr. Faribault was soon called upon to deplore the untimely death of his friend Campbell...".

"One Crawford, a brother of the agent heretofore mentioned, took up the quarrel of the Company against Campbell, and challenged him to mortal combat. ...Campbell accepted the challenge, and the parties with their respective friends, proceeded to Mackinac

Mackinac Island In The Distance

 and thence to a small island at the mouth of the river St. Mary's, near Drummond's Island, where the duel took place. Campbell was shot dead at the first fire, and Crawford was slightly wounded. The descendants of the two combatants do not seem to have continued the feud, inasmuch as Mr. Crawford's grandson, LaChapelle, is married to Mr. Campbell's granddaughter... ."


This incident was also mentioned here:

Faribault's...last act for the company was the delivery to Mackinac of his fur returns, whereupon he heard of the August 11, 1808, death of his friend Archibald Campbell at the hands of Redford Crawford, brother of Louis, in a pistol duel at Drummond Island.

This source says it was John Campbell who was killed in the duel at the hands of Louis Crawford.


And this source:
(I)-John Archibald Campbell (1775-1808), who became U.S. Indian Sub-Agent at Prairie du Chien, is killed in a duel with trader Redford Crawford; Campbell's former trading associate. (I)-Robert Dickson (1768-1823) was acting as Redford's second. John left seven Metis children to fend for themselves as his Dakota wife died in 1801.

After Joseph Smith

The Mormon Church had a question of leadership in the aftermath of the deaths of Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum Smith on June 27, 1844.  From Annals of the West: embracing a concise account...:

"The funeral pageant next absorbed all their attention. The mourning was sore, sad and deep, over the beloved patriarch Hyrum, and the adored prophet Joseph [Smith]."

A statue depicting the last ride of Joseph Smith & Hyrum Smith

"The struggle for the leadership, the Seer succession, which followed, however, soon dissipated the sorrow for the past.  Rigdon, as second in rank, claimed promotion.. .  James J. Strang contended for the place of Seer... . But the College of the Twelve had other views, and a vote on the subject."

"It revoked all former designations, and devolved the choice upon them. Under the management of their sagacious chief, they elected the Peter of the Apostles, Brigham Young, to the responsible station."

Twilight Of Empire - Captive Hall Girls - Part Two

Twilight Of Empire (Narratives Of America - Book VI), by Allan W. Eckert, included the capture of sisters Sylvia and Rachel Hall at the Indian Creek Massacre in May of 1832 in LaSalle County, Illinois (see Blog Post Part One). As this reference stated, "...Stillman's defeat by Blackhawk many private quarrels between Indians and whites provided the pretext to settling scores, including the one between Keewassee and William Davis." The Hall family and others stayed in the Davis Settlement in a futile attempt to find a safe place against frontier violence.

Sylvia & Rachel Hall were captured by Mike Girty's band of Pottawatomi [see the Mike Girty at Wikipedia]. The girls were ransomed and released in June of 1832. Both married and lived long lives.

Rachel Hall married William Munson and had the following children:

Amanda Miranda Munson who married Samuel Dunavan

Elliott Munson

Irena Priscilla Munson m. George Vance

Melissa Fidelia Munson who married George Debold Shaver

Phoebe Matilda Munson married John F. Reed
The daughter of John & Phoebe (Munson) Reed, Winifred, married Mountain Kennesaw Landis (see his entry at FindAGrave)
Frances, daughter of John & Phoebe (Munson) Reed married James H. Eckels, Comptroller of Treasury under President Grover Cleveland (see Wikipedia entry for Mr. Eckels here)

William Marcy Munson m. Dora E. Shaver

Infant

Lewis Cass m. Emma Belle Mallay

Sylvia Hall married Reverend William Stribling Horn in 1833 in Putnam County, Illinois. The girls were brought to Rock County, Wisconsin in 1832 per the History of Rock County found here. (The FindAGrave entry for Sylvia (Hall) Horn).

Charles Martin Scanlan, author of Indian Creek Massacre and Captivity of the Hall Girls..., written in 1915, was given this account by descendants of the Hall girls, including Mrs. A. Miranda Dunavan, daughter of Rachel (Hall) Munson, and Miss Sylvia E. Horn of Lincoln, Nebraska, Mr. C.L. Horn of Mackinaw, Illinois, grandchildren of Sylvia (Hall) Horn.