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Sunday, July 1, 1832.+-

En route up Rock River.

In afternoon army crosses into Michigan Territory (now Wisconsin) at Turtle Village, where Beloit now stands. Camp is made on "the plain between Rock river & the creek."Johnston Journal, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; John H. Wakefield, Wakefield's History of the Black Hawk War (Chicago: Caxton Club, 1908), 76-77.