The Warrior
Black Hawk war zone tour - 2004, Vernon County WI (0)
Sept 9, 2004, continued.
By the time I got back to the campground at Blackhawk Park, the fog was gone entirely. Now I was able to get some clear shots of the river. This one is looking north.
Black Hawk's people were trapped on the bank on the right, in between the steamboat "Warrior" which had been patrolling the river, looking for them, and the army and militia forces coming down the bluffs at them.
Here is how one of the eyewitnesses described it:
The troops and [Menomonie] Indians on board the Warrior, kept up a brisk fire on the Indians ...