Voyage of the Warrior

This image from Henry Lewis' Das Illustrirte Mississipithal depicts the federal gunboat "Warrior" as it shells members of Black Hawk's band in their attempt to flee American troops and return to Iowa. In this engagement U.S. Army troops drove Black Hawk's party of men, women and children to the banks of the Mississippi River, where the gunboat patrolled. It inflicted heavy casualties upon those caught on the open water, turning a military rout into a scene of mass carnage.