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<date value='1832-04-05'>Thursday,
April 5, 1832.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>Sangamon River</place>. </dateline>
<p> [Black Hawk crosses Mississippi River into Illinois for
purpose, he declares, of raising corn along Rock River. With him are 400 or 500
horsemen, plus old men and boys in charge of canoes, as well as women and
children, totaling about 2,000 people.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Journal of Albert Sidney Johnston</title>, 10 April
1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
Museum, Springfield, IL; Gen. Henry Atkinson to Gov. John Reynolds, 10 April
1832, 13 April 1832, 27 April 1832, <title>Atkinson Letter
Book</title>.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1832-04-07'>Saturday,
April 7, 1832.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln is elected captain of company in Thirty-first Regiment
of Illinois Militia. Thomas Wigginton is appointed first lieutenant and Coonrad
Elmore second lieutenant.<bibl default='NO'>IA—Executive
Register.</bibl>
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<date value='1832-04-19'>Thursday,
April 19, 1832.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> News reaches New Salem of Gov. Reynolds' call for mounted
volunteers to meet at Beardstown April 22, 1832 to drive Black Hawk and his
band west of Mississippi River. Sangamon County is called on for 350 men.
<bibl default='NO'>Stevens,
<title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>, 113;
ISLA—<title>Bulletin</title>, No. 54.</bibl>
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<date value='1832-04-21'>Saturday, April 21, 1832.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place> and <place key='39.8450, -89.8600' teiForm='name'>Richland, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln gives William Sampson receipt "in full of all demands up to the day."
<bibl default='NO'>—Photocopy.</bibl>
</p>
<p> [In 1860 Lincoln wrote: "In less than a year Offutt's business was
failing—had almost failed—when the Black Hawk war of 1832—broke
out."<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A65' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Autobiography Written for John L.
Scripps</xref>, [c. June 1860], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
4:60-67.</bibl>]</p>
<p> Black Hawk War recruits of New Salem neighborhood meet at farm of Dallas Scott on
Richland Creek, nine miles southwest of New Salem. They form company and elect Lincoln
captain.<bibl default='NO'>ISLA—<title>Bulletin</title>, No. 54; Elliott, <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of
Illinois Soldiers</title>, 100.</bibl>
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<date value='1832-04-22'>Sunday, April 22, 1832.</date>
<place key='40.0167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Beardstown, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln's company goes into camp at Beardstown. In wrestling match with
Lorenzo Dow Thompson, Lincoln is thrown in two straight falls. Match is to settle
whether Lincoln's company or Capt. William Moore's company shall have camp ground.<bibl default='NO'>IHi—Trans., 1904, 433-34.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Gov. Reynolds writes to Gen. Henry Atkinson at Fort Armstrong that he
expects to have "about 1,500 mounted men on the 25th or 26th inst." Spring of 1832 has
been wet and little farm work has been done. Farmers<pb n='1:18'/> who have
volunteered expect to be home from campaign in few days to work fields. Horses are hard
to get, and forage is scarce.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Reynolds Letter Book</title>, Black Hawk War Collection,
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateRange from='1832-04-23' to='1832-04-26'>April 23, 1832-April
26, 1832.</dateRange>
<place key='40.0167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Beardstown, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln and other captains hold light drills. On 25th, Lincoln draws from
Brigade Quartermaster William Thomas corn, pork, salt, one barrel of flour, and five and
a half gallons of whiskey. Next day he draws fifty pounds of lead.<bibl default='NO'>Quartermaster's Record, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
</p>
<p> [<title>Sangamo Journal</title>, April 26, 1832, bursts
into poetry:<quote>
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<l part='N'>Brave Sangamo hath arm'd</l>
<l part='N'>All to defend her right</l>
<l part='N'>Arouse ye bold Kentucky boys</l>
<l part='N'>The foremost in the fight</l>
<l part='N'>Away! away! away!</l>
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</quote>
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<p> Two Sauk messengers sent by Gen. Atkinson return from Black Hawk's camp and
report that Black Hawk and chiefs of band say they have "no bad intentions," but will
not return to west side of Mississippi.<bibl default='NO'>IHi—<title>Journal of Felix St. Vrain</title>, 26 April
1832, Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1832-04-27'>Friday, April 27, 1832.</date>
<place key='40.0167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Beardstown, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Capt. Lincoln draws one axe from quartermaster.<bibl default='NO'>Quartermaster's Record, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
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<p> [Contemporary letters indicate that Lincoln's company, like many others,
changed its view of war after five days in camp. Little disposition was at first
manifested to question governor's call. But lack of discipline and shameful way
appointments are made cause many soldiers to believe they are on holiday excursion and
not on expedition against hostile Indians.]</p>
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<date value='1832-04-28'>Saturday, April 28, 1832.</date>
<place key='40.0167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Beardstown, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Capt. Lincoln's company is enrolled in state service by Col. John J.
Hardin, inspector general and mustering officer.<bibl default='NO'>Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>,
279.</bibl>
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<p> Lincoln draws supplies—soap, candles, flints, 50-pound grid iron,
4 tin buckets, 7 coffee boilers, 7 tin pans, and 16 tin cups, as well as 1 keg powder,
whiskey, corn, pork, flour, bread, salt, 3 blankets, 144 yards of domestic, and "1 Buck
Tape."<bibl default='NO'>Quartermaster's Record, Black Hawk War
Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
</p>
<p> From Cyrus Edwards, acting quartermaster general, he draws 30 muskets and
bayonets. [When Lincoln returns these arms, three muskets and nine bayonets are
missing.]<bibl default='NO'>IA—Governor's Correspondence,
Military.</bibl>
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<date value='1832-04-29'>Sunday, April 29, 1832.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.7167, -91.0667' teiForm='name'>Yellow Banks,
IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> March from Beardstown begins. Some 150 soldiers without horses are ordered
to go by boat to Yellow Banks. Gov. Reynolds and 1,500 mounted militia camp for night
three miles east of Rushville.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Reynolds Order and Letter Book</title>, Black Hawk War
Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
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<date value='1832-04-30'>Monday,
April 30, 1832.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to
<place key='40.7167, -91.0667' teiForm='name'>Yellow Banks, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p>
According to Orville H. Browning, volunteers move to new camp four miles north
of Rushville, day's march being seven miles.<bibl default='NO'>Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black
Hawk War</title>, 117-18.</bibl>
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<p> William Carpenter of
Sangamon County reports day's march as three miles and camp as Rushville.
<bibl default='NO'>Elliott,
<title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois
Soldiers</title>, xvii.</bibl>
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<p> Gen. Whiteside orders that
"there is to be no firing of guns in the lines or encampment without
permission." Lincoln's company is made part of Fourth Illinois Regiment of
Mounted Volunteers, commanded by Col. Samuel M. Thompson, in brigade of Brig.
Gen. Samuel Whiteside. Col. Thompson began his services as first lieutenant in
Lincoln's company.<bibl default='NO'>David Prickett to editor,
<title>Illinois Herald</title>, Springfield, 3 May 1832;
<title>Reynolds Order and Letter Book</title>, Black Hawk War
Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield,
IL.</bibl>
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