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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>
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<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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