April 23, 1832

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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>
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         <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>
               </lg>
            </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&#8212;<title>Journal of Felix St. Vrain</title>, 26 April
               1832, Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
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