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 172 HISTORY OP SOUTHEAST MISSOURI Bash, Peter Barrado, Francois Barraboe, Thomas Boyee, Burrel Castly, John Cameron, Charles Cardinal, William Crump, John Cooper, Jesse Cochran, Baptiste Cotie, Alex- ander Cotie, James Cowan, Hugh Dowlin, Ellas Davis, Ludwell Davis, John Dotson, Samuel Foster, Able Galland, Alexander Giboney, Louis Guliah, Charles Hamilton, Louis Heneaux, Abijah Highsmith, John Houk, Benjamin Hall, John Holcomb, James Hamilton, Frederick Hector, Thomas Hail, John Hodge, Stephen Jarboe, Jehoida Jeffrey, Andrew Johnson, Baptiste Janneaux, Jr., Baptiste Janneaux, Sr., William King, Charles Lloyd, Francis Lemmey, Joseph Lem- mej', John Langston. Baptiste La Croy. Bap- tiste Labeaux, Stephen McKenzie, James Mas- sey, Nathan McCarty, James Masterson, Mark Murphy, William JMartin, Benjamin Ogle, Samuel Parker, James Putney, Samuel Philip, John Patterson, Antoine Pelkey, John Roach, Tessant Reeves, Robert Robertson, Joshua Simpson, John Sorrells, John Shepherd, Alex- ander St. Scott, Joseph Sivwaris. Edward Stephenson, Solomou Thoi-n, Hubbard Tayon, John D. Upham, John Vance, Louis Vanure, Pascal Valle, George Wilt, John Watkins, Isaac Williams, John Wiggs, David Wilt, William Wathen, Jenkin Williams, William Wells, Levi W^olverton, Michael Wigo, Fred- erick Webber, Isaac Gregory, George Vanleer. After the company was organized and mus- tered into service it was sent to North IIis- souri and while there fought the battle of the Sink Hole. This was in Lincobi coimty, not far from Cape au Gris. The account here given of this battle was written by Colonel John Shaw of the Wisconsin Historical Soci- ety: "Captain Peter Craig commanded at Fort Howard. About noon five of the men went out of the fort to Byrne 's deserted house en the bluff, about one-fourth of a mile below the fort, to bring in a grindstone. In conse- quence of back water from the Mississippi they went in a canoe, and on their return were fired on by a party supposed to be fifty In- dians, who were under shelter of some brush that grew along at the foot of the bluff near Byrne's house, and about fifteen rods distant from the canoe at that time. Three of the whites were killed and one mortall.v woimded, and as the water was shallow the Indians ran out and tomahawked their victims. The peo- ple of the fort ran out and fired on the In- dians across the back water, a few inches deep, while another party of about twenty-five ran to the right of the water with a view of inter- cepting the Indians, who seemed to be making toward the bluff or high plain west and north- west of the fort. The party of twenty-five and Captain Craig's soon united. On the bluff was the cultivated field and deserted residence of Benjamin Allen. The field was about forty rods across, beyond which was pretty thick timber. Here the Indians made a stand and here the fight began. Both parties fired, and as the fight waxed warm the In- dians slowly retired as the whites advanced. After the fight had been going on perhaps some ten minutes the whites were reinforced by Captain David Musick, of Cape au Gris, with about twenty men. He had been on a scout toward the head of Cuiver river and had returned to within about one-half a mile of the fort and about one and a half miles of the scene of the conflict, and had .stopped with his men to graze their horses when, hearing the firing, they instantly remounted and clashed toward the place of battle. Dismoimting in the edge of the timber on the bluff, and hitch- ing their horses, they rushed through a part of the Indian line, and shortly after the enemy fled, a part bearing to the right of the sink hole toward Bob's creek, but the most of them