Another one of Black Hawk’s battles is detailed in a short book called The Battle of Campbell’s Island, by William A. Meese.
The author mentioned earlier in the book the Prairie du Chien at the time had about 100 families of French Canadian descent. Most were traders and most had Indian wives. Most fled because of the American action.
This section will have three posts. If you need the rest of the story right away, or more than I have in the three posts, the entire book can be downloaded from the Library of Congress Internet Archive site.
