We were all preparing to move into the fort on the first alarm.

Some were for being brave and delaying, like our friends here.

'Come, come,' said the Governor, 'hurry into the fort as fast as possible--there is no merit in being brave with the Indians.

It is the height of folly to stay and meet danger which you may by prudence avoid.'" In a few days our friends waked up to the conviction that something must be done at once The first step was to forbid any Winnebago coming within the garrison, lest they should find out what they had known as well as ourselves for three months past--namely, the feebleness of the means of resistance.

The next was to send fatigue-parties into the woods, under the protection of a guard, to cut pickets for inclosing the garrison.
There was every reason to believe that the enemy were not very far distant, and that their object in coming north was to break a way into the Chippewa country, where they would find a place of security among their friends and allies.