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In his “Wisconsin and the War of 1812,’' written for the fall 1962, issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of Hisotry, Prof. Reginald Horsman quotes from a letter penned by Dickson on March 15, 1814:“I am heartily sick and tired of thisplace.There is no situation more miserable than to see objects around you dying with hunger, and unable to give them but little assistance.1 have done what 1 could for them,” Dickson said, “and will in consequence starve mysdf.”The colonel left Garlic Island in mid-April, 1814, and proceded with a force of Indian allies to Mackinac. But his arrival there in early June came too late to prevent the Americans from mountingan offensive on the uorer Mtssisslnoi.
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Appleton Post Crescent
Appleton, Wisconsin, US
Sun, Oct 31, 1976
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