| Friday, May 25, 1832.En route to Fox River. | Lincoln's company marches 20 miles and encamps six miles from Paw Paw
Grove.Elliott, Services of Illinois Soldiers, xvii. Some volunteers reach Fox River, 20 miles north of Ottawa; day is spent
searching men for plunder taken from Indian villages.Stevens, Black Hawk War,
162; Taylor to Atkinson, 26 May 1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL. |