April 22, 1832

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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&#8212;Trans., 1904, 433-34.</bibl>
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         <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>
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