Dow's letter of introduction, 'Let the Indian Big Eagle now confined at Davenport, Iowa be discharged at once.' When Dow presented this pardon to the commander of the camp in Davenport, he and the order were treated 'with much rudeness and contempt.'" Big Eagle's brother, Medicine Bottle II (Wakanozanzan), was captured with Little Six (Shakopee III) in Manitoba in 1864 and executed in 1865. Story behind the portrait The famous portrait of Big Eagle was taken during the summer of 1864 when he was in prison at Camp Kearney (the Native American Stockade at Camp McClellen, Davenport). W. W. Hathaway, then the assistant commissary, had persuaded Big Eagle, the highest ranking Dakota in the prison, to sit for a photograph in a studio that had opened nearby. "Everything went well until we neared the place, when Big Eagle began to remove his finery," said Hathaway. "We asked him what the trouble was and he said he would not pose unless we paid him $15." Life after prison After leaving prison, Big Eagle joined his band at Crow Creek Reservation and moved to the Santee Reservation in 1866. Living on a reservation subject to the control of an Indian agent did not suit him. He left Santee in the spring of 1869 and settled with his family near Birch Coulee. He became known as Jerome Big Eagle and was baptized as "Elijah". In June 1894, while on a visit to Flandreau, South Dakota, Big Eagle was interviewed by historian and journalist Return Ira Holcombe with the help of two interpreters, Nancy Huggan and her son-in-law, the Reverend John Eastman. The resulting narrative was published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press on July 1, 1894, and was subsequently reprinted by the Minnesota Historical Society. It was the first extensive account of the Dakota War of 1862 told from a Dakota point of view. In his narrative, 67-year-old Big Eagle said that he had come to peace with his situation after the war:"All feeling on my part about this has long since passed away. For years I have been a Christian, and I hope to die one. My white neighbors and friends know my character as a citizen and a man. I am at peace with every one, whites and Indians. I am getting to be an old man, but I am still able to work. I am poor, but I manage to