This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chambers, Brooke, Beach, Burgwin, Prentiss, Jones, Hardin Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4242 Message Board Post: The Government Survey Map of Township 74 Range 44 shows the boat landing at Council Point as being in the southwest quarter of Section 14. The map dates 1851 - 1852. Fort Croghan used this landing when receiving supplies by steamboat, and located nearby, southwest of present Council Bluffs, Iowa.--W.F. August 22, 1841. Governor John Chambers -- TO -- General Brook. Burlington, Iowa Territory: "....Capt. Beach Agent for the Sacs & foxes, under date 14th inst., writes "I learn from the Indians that the Pottawatomies, exasperated by the frequent attacks of the Sioux upon them , are stirring up a crusade against these people -- a party of them have visited the Sacs & Foxes, soliciting their aid, and are said to have had 32 string of wampum, representing so many villages of Pawnees, Osages, etc., who have joined them. They had five Sioux scalps lately taken, a few young men went with them, but owing to their expected business with the United States, the mass will probably remain at home....(Asks for the aid of the Dragoons.)--Microfim Supplement to Iowa Territorial Papers. M -- 325. Roll 16. August 31, 1841. Fort Crawford, Hdqtrs. 5th Inf. Bvt. Brig. Gen. Geo. N. Brooke -- to -- Iowa Governor John Chambers: ".....In relation to the Pottawattomies and the Sioux (who are the Sioux of the plains) and nearer the Missouri than the Mississippi, the Pawnees and Osages, they are from their situation, nearly out of reach of the troops in this quarter, and can be operated on much easier from Fort Leavenworth than from this section of country....". --Microfilm Supplement to Iowa Territorial Papers. M - 325.Roll 16. June 30, 1842. Camp Fenwick near Council Bluffs: "The company left Fort Leavenworth, May 23d 1842, for Council Bluffs, where it arrived on the 30th of the same months".--Capt. J.H. K.Burgwin. -- Iowa Territorial Papers. Roll 20. M - 325 October 7, 1842.-- Captain Burgwin -- to -- Brig. Gen. R. Jones: ".....I have respectfully to suggest the name of "Fort Croghan" for the contonment I have built in compliance with the instructions contained in your letter of the 30th of July 1842.--My company has been for some weeks in quartrers, and all the necessary arrangements have been made for passing the winter here, with as much comfort as might be expected...."-- Microfilm Supplement to Iowa Territorial Papers. M - 325. Roll 16. Nov. 10, 1842.-- Adj. General Office -- to -- Captain Burgwin: Your letter of 7th ult. received. Secry. of War approves the name "Fort Croghan" suggested by you. Also approves Fort Croghan as a double ration post. Your application for a medical officer has been attended to.--Roll 19 of Microfilm Supplement to Iowa Territorial Papers. M - 325. April 17, 1843.-- Fort Croghan. Capt. Burgwin -- to -- Captain Prentiss, Assistant Adjutant General, Third Department: On the 10th inst. the ice on the Missouri broke up, and the river commenced rapidly rising, and has now attained a lead of a foot or 18 inches lower than that of my contonment. I commenced yesterday moving the public property to the Bluffs about 6 miles from here. By tomorrow expect the water to make it impossible to stay here. The weather has been extremely inclement for some days. No one who is in the country has ever known so extraordinary a rise attending the breaking up of the ice. The greatest floods are more produced by the opening of the upper rivers of the Missouri and the melting of the snow on the mountains, sending their waters down before the rise resulting from the thaw throughout the more northern country has left us. This freshet is the first rise.....There has been no such overflow of the Missouri for 17 years....Microfilm Supplement to Iowa! Territorial Papers. M - 325. Roll 17. July 16, 1843. Fort Croghan.--Since the abandonment of Fort Croghan, Capt. Burgwin has remained encamped in the vicinity on the highlands. Desires instructions; if to remain another winter, must have comfortable quarters. "My men and horses suffered much during the last one...In this country the building of even temporary huts, stables, granaries and store houses is a work of no little labor....The ground around Fort Croghan remains covered with water.--Microfilm Supplement to Iowa Territorial Papers. M - 325. Roll 17. August 28, 1843. Headquarters, 3d Mil. Dept. Asst. Adj. Gen. Office, St. Louis -- to -- Capt. Burgwin: Informs Capt. Burgwin "that should the report from the Supt. of Indian Affairs, so far as relates to the quiet of the frontier, be such as to justify the withdrawal of the command from Fort Croghan, you will receive order to repair with your company to Fort Leavenworth".--Microfilm Supplement to Iowa Territorial Papers. M - 325. Roll 17. September 18, 1843.--ORDERS No. 17....Paragraph 2: After the annuity has been paid to the Potawatomy Indians, Capt. Burgwin will break up his encampment at the agency, and return with his company "G", First Dragoons, to Fort Leavenworth....". -- Iowa Territorial Papers. Roll 14. October 13, 1843.--Fort Leavenworth. Captain Burgwin and his company of Dragoons arrived yesterday about 12 o'clock noon from Fort Croghan.--Microfilm Supplement to Iowa Territorial Papers. M - 325. Roll 17. December 2, 1843. Fort Leavenworth. Lt. McCrate says provisions at Fort Croghan will be stored with Mr. Davis Hardin, the ex-farmer of the Pottawattamies, where they can be obtained by any trooops passisng through the country next spring.--Microfilm Supplement to Iowa Territorial Papers. M - 325. Roll 21.