With letters and dispatches from Col. James M. Strode, Capt. Iles begins return march to Dixon's Ferry. Camp is made on same spot, near Apple River fort, used on 9th.Elijah Iles, Sketches of Early Life and Times in Kentucky, Missouri, and Illinois (Springfield, IL: Springfield Printing Co., 1883), 49-50; Stevens, Black Hawk War, 286.