CHAPTER XXXV.
SURRENDER OF WINNEBAGO PRISONERS.
The war was now considered at an end.

The news of the battle of the Bad Axe, where the regulars, the militia, and the steamboat Warrior combined, had made a final end of the remaining handful of Sauks, had reached us and restored tranquillity to the hearts and homes of the frontier settlers.
It may seem wonderful that an enemy so few in number and so insignificant in resources could have created such a panic, and required so vast an amount of opposing force to subdue them.

The difficulty had been simply in never knowing where to find them, either to attack or guard against them.

Probably at the outset every military man thought and felt like the noble old veteran General Brady.

"Give me two infantry companies mounted," said he, "and I will engage to whip the Sauks out of the country in one week!" True, but to whip the enemy you must first meet him; and in order to pursue effectually and _catch_ the Indians, a peculiar training is necessary--a training which, at that day, few, even of the frontier militia, could boast.
In some portions of this campaign there was another difficulty,--the want of concert between the two branches of the service.