April 30, 1832

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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>
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  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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