Army marches 12 miles, following Indian trail to small Potawatomi village between the Kishwaukee and its south branch (both streams are sometimes called Sycamore Creek).Elliott, Services of Illinois Soldiers, xvii; Zachary Taylor to Atkinson, 26 May 1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.

It is probably on this day that two men who have been out in search of their horses return to camp with the report that body of Indians going north toward Rock River has crossed army's trail. Gov. Reynolds calls council of brigade officers, who decide against pursuing Indians.Zachary Taylor to Atkinson, 26 May 1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; John Reynolds, Reynolds' History of Illinois. My Own Times: Embracing also the History of My Life (Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1879), 237-39; Whiteside to Atkinson, 27 May 1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; William Orr to John York Sawyer, 1 July 1832.