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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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