Chapter II: Part I: Saturday, August Fifteenth, 1812

Scene at dawn; page 19:--Mothers and children; Captain Wells and his
Miamis; his niece, Rebekah Heald; why he blackened his face; the
Dead March; the Fort cattle; Indian follies; 20:--Margaret Helm, the
authority for Mrs. Kinzie's narrative in Wau-Bun; 21:--Ensign Ronan's
insubordination; Rebekah Heald's version as reported by her son,
Darius; 22:--Evacuation of the fort; Captain Heald's force; Kinzie
family; they take boat; 23:--To-pee-nee-be's warning; line of march;
24:--Pottowatomie "escort;" 25:--Wau-Bun narrative begins; the attack;
27:--Surgeon Van Voorhees; 28:--Black Partridge rescues Mrs. Helm;
scene portrayed in bronze group; 29:--John Kinzie reports safety of
Lieutenant Helm; Captain Wells's scalp; Indians are kind to Mrs. Helm;
she learns details of the struggle; a squaw tortures a wounded soldier;
30:--English blamed for Indian alliance; Mrs. Heald's narrative
begins; similar to Mrs. Helm's; the sand-ridges; 31:--Captain Wells
orders and leads the charges; the battle thus foolishly lost; signal
for surrender; 32:--The twelve militia-men; Captain Heald's wound;
33:--Mrs. Heald's six wounds; particulars of Wells's death; Indians cut
out his heart and eat it; 34:--"Epeconier!"; his noble self-sacrifice;
relics in the Calumet Club; 35:--Mrs. Heald fights for her blanket;
36:--Stripped of her jewelry; what became of it; articles redeemed and
still in existence; 37:--Chandonnais saves the Healds' lives; wounded
prisoners tortured to death; 38:--Fatal blot on the Indian race; Mrs.
Helm's report goes on at second hand; variance with Captain Heald's;
39:--The latter casts no slurs; 40:--One Indian kills twelve children
in the baggage-wagon; Mrs. Helm's incredible account of Wells's death;
41:--True-seeming tale of the Kinzies' escape; doubtful statement
about Mrs. Heald; 42:--Kinzies again in the old house; Indians burn
the fort; they guard the Kinzies, Wabash hostiles come; 44:--Peril
and panic; 45:--Saved by Billy Caldwell, the Sau-ga-nash; 46:--Sukey
Corbin's fate, as told by Mrs. Jouett; 48:--Possibility that a
narrative by Lieutenant Helm may exist, Indian traits; 49:--What is
next to be shown; 50.

PART II.

HOW THE FORT AND CITY WERE BEGUN AND WHO WERE THE BEGINNERS

Chapter I. The Dark Before the Dawn.--The French
period reluctantly passed over; Chicago reappears in 1778, after
100 years of oblivion; J. B. Pointe de Saible; 53:--Various spellings
of Chicago; meaning of the word; 54:--Treaty of 1795; building
of the "Old Kinzie House" in 1778; 55:--Who was here then?
Astor fortunes; 56:--50,000 square miles of solitude; Gurdon Hubbard's
observations in 1816; Ouillemette, now Wilmette; Gen. Dearborn
orders the fort built; 57:--John Whistler's company of the
First Infantry comes in 1804 and builds it; John Whistler; 58:--The
schooner Tracy arrives, the "big canoe with wings;" the account
given, in 1875, by Mrs. Whistler; the pioneer, John Kinzie, arrives
in 1804; 60:--State of things for the next eight years;
61:--Charles Jouett; 62:--Joe Battles and Alexander Robinson;
the Indians and Indian traders; whisky; Munsell's History of
Chicago; 63.

Chapter II. Building of the First Fort Dearborn.--William Wells
is here in 1803; 65:--Signs an Indian trader's license as
Governor Harrison's agent; Captain Anderson comes down from
"Mill-wack-ie" in 1804; what the fort was like; 66:--Agency
House; 67:--How the Chicagoans passed their time; War
Department records of Fort Dearborn, furnished in 1881 by
Secretary-of-War Lincoln to John Wentworth; 68:--In 1811 Captain
Nathan Heald marries Rebekah Wells; wild wedding journey;
69:--Gay winter for the bride; John Kinzie kills John Lalime in
self-defence; 70:--Double murder by Indians at Lee's place
(Hardscrabble), on the South Branch; 71:--Graphic narrative in
Wau-Bun; 72:--Man and boy escape and spread the alarm; 74:--Captain
Heald tells the story; Indian traits; 75.

Chapter III. English and Indian Savages.--Capt. Heald
is inclined to charge the Hardscrabble massacre to the Winnebagoes;
British alliance with Indians characterized; 77:--Its unsoldierly
results; ruin of brave General Hull; 78:--Shame to Lord
Liverpool's government; "Suppose Russia should instigate a Sepoy
rebellion;" wild alarm follows the Lee murders, 79:--Munsell's
history of it; war declared; 80:--Hull sends Winnemeg with orders
to Heald to evacuate Fort Dearborn and fall back on Detroit,
Mackinaw had already been taken; wording of Hull's order differently
given by Captain Heald and Mrs. Helm; 81:--The latter
finds fault with the former; alleges want of harmony in the fort;
82:--Mrs. Heald denies this, alleging that Ronan thought highly
of his captain; the stammering soldier; 83:--comparative authenticity
of the two narratives; how the Heald story comes to be told
now for the first time; 84.

Chapter IV. A Long Farewell.--Departure not favored
by sub-officers; soldier suggests "jerked beef;" 85:--Heald's letter
of Nov. 7, 1812, regarding the withdrawal; Wau-Bun to the
contrary; alleged disorder; 86:--Captain Heald's traits; 87:--Heald
and Kinzie have a pow-wow with the Indians; consult between
themselves; agree to distribute goods, but destroy arms and
whisky; Kinzie's liquors; plan carried out; 88:--William Wells
to the rescue; scene of his arrival; 89:--Baseless hopes aroused;
Black Partridge gives up his medal; 90:--This meant war; then
what should have been done? 92:--Mrs. Heald's story of the
preparations; 93:--Surroundings then and now; 94-96:--Saturday
having been already described, the story skips from Friday to
Sunday; 96.