WAU-NAN-GEE OR, THE MASSACRE AT CHICAGO,

A ROMANCE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION,

By MAJOR RICHARDSON,
AUTHOR OF “WACOUSTA," “HARDSCRABBLE," “ECARTE,"
“JACK BRAG IN SPAIN," “TECUMSEH," &c.

NEW YORK:
H. LONG AND BROTHER,
No. 43 ANN STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year One ThousandEight Hundred and Fifty-Two,

BY H. LONG AND BROTHER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United Statesfor the Southern District of New York

CONTENTS

• PREFATORY INSCRIPTION.
• CHAPTER I.
• CHAPTER II.
• CHAPTER III.
• CHAPTER IV.
• CHAPTER V.
• CHAPTER VI.
• CHAPTER VII.
• CHAPTER VIII.
• CHAPTER IX.
• CHAPTER X.
• CHAPTER XI.
• CHAPTER XII.
• CHAPTER XIII.
• CHAPTER XIV.
• CHAPTER XV.
• CHAPTER XVI.
• CHAPTER XVII.
• CHAPTER XVIII.
• CHAPTER XIX.
• CHAPTER XX.
• CHAPTER XXI.
• CHAPTER XXII.
• CHAPTER XXIII.
• CHAPTER XXIV.
• CHAPTER XXV.
• CHAPTER XXVI.

PREFATORY INSCRIPTION.

My Publishers ask of me a couple of pages of matter to precede thisTale. It is scarcely necessary to state, that the whole of the textapproaches so nearly to Historical fact, that any other prefacethan that which admits the introduction of but one strictly fictitiouscharacter—Maria Heywood—in the book, must be, in a great degree,supererogatory. Yet I gladly avail myself of this pleasing opportunityof manifesting the deep interest and sympathy with which I haveever regarded those brave spirits—heroes not less than heroines—who participated in the trials of that brief but horrid epoch.How can I better exemplify this than by inscribing to the descendantsof the venerable founder of the City of Chicago—a prominent actorin the scene—as well as to the gallant military survivors of theMassacre, if any yet exist, the fruits of that interest and thatsympathy.

Dedications and Inscriptions have almost grown out of fashion—atleast they are not so general in the present century as in the daysof Dryden; but where, through them, an opportunity for the expressionof esteem and sympathy is presented, an Author may gladly availhimself of the occasion to show that no common interest influencedthe tracings of his pen—not the mere desire to make a book, butto establish on a high pedestal, and to circulate through the mostattractive and popular medium, the merits of those whosedeeds and sufferings h

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