Ann Durkin Keating

And for the most part, they actually forcibly kept many of their young warriors from joining Tecumseh because they knew that there was another session in the making and they wanted the best deal they could get.

So Blackhawk, in fact, Blackhawk doesn't fight very much, but other people who are aligned with Blackhawk fight well.

a couple of battles in Illinois, and then up in the north, up in Wisconsin.

And it's a very short war.

The U.S.

government sends Winfield Scott out here.

He's going to be famous during the Mexican-American War and then at the beginning of the Civil War.

But Winfield Scott comes out here with troops.

He brings cholera.

So there's cholera in this region in 1832, as well as this fighting that's taking place.

Blackhawk has taken prisoner.

He's kind of held as a, he's going to be paraded around the East Coast in the following years.

But the loss that the Sauk and their allies have in 1832 as a result of this war leads to this 1833 Treaty of Chicago.

That's kind of the last treaty.

And he buries soldiers the day after a battle.

So to my mind, I get the idea that he doesn't see battle, but what he does see is the results of battle.

And I've always taken that away from thinking about Lincoln in that way.

It's millions of acres.

It's much of what's now southeast Wisconsin.

That seems completely reasonable, that 5 million acres seems a completely reasonable number.