<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-01'>Tuesday, May 1, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.7167, -91.0667' teiForm='name'>Yellow Banks,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> After march of 25 miles, camp is made on Crooked Creek, six miles northeast
            of Macomb.<bibl default='NO'>Elliott, <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois Soldiers</title>, xvii; Diary of O. H.
               Browning, in Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk
               War</title>, 117-18.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-02'>Wednesday, May 2, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.7167, -91.0667' teiForm='name'>Yellow Banks,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> March of 20 miles is made. Volunteers camp on large prairie, two miles from
            timber or water, 18 miles south of Yellow Banks. Much dissatisfaction and murmuring is
            heard from troops about cold and dampness of ground.<bibl default='NO'>Diary of O. H. Browning, in Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>, 117-18.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-03'>Thursday, May 3, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.7167, -91.0667' teiForm='name'>Yellow Banks,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Henderson River is reached about noon, according to O. H. Browning.<bibl default='NO'>Diary of O. H. Browning, in Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>, 117-18.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Gov. Reynolds and Madison County volunteer say they reached river in
               evening.<bibl default='NO'>John Reynolds, <title>Reynolds' History of Illinois. My Own Times: Embracing also the History of My
                  Life</title> (Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1879), 226; Illinois Advocate,
               Vandalia, 8 May 1832.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Gov. Reynolds says river is 50 yards wide and running "like a milltail." By
            felling trees into river, volunteers cross, swimming their horses. March is resumed and
            camp made at Yellow Banks. Citizens are calm, and this spirit spreads through army. No
            guard is placed at night.<bibl default='NO'>Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>, 117-18; Reynolds
               to Atkinson, 4 May 1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential
               Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; John H. Wakefield, <title>Wakefield's History of the Black Hawk War</title> (Chicago: Caxton Club,
            1908).</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Provisions are scarce and hogs on nearby farms are shot by undisciplined
            troops. Gov. Reynolds writes Gen. Atkinson that he must "have cartridges for 5 or 600
               muskets."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Reynolds Order and Letter Book</title>, Black Hawk War
               Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; Diary
               of O. H. Browning in Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black
                  Hawk War</title>, 117-18.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-05'>Saturday, May 5, 1832.</date>
            <place key='40.7167, -91.0667' teiForm='name'>Yellow Banks, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Gov. Reynolds dispatches three messengers to Fort Armstrong, 50 miles
            distant, for provisions. In 24 hours troops will be without food.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Reynolds Order and Letter Book</title>, Black Hawk War
               Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-06'>Sunday, May 6, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Before noon steamboat William Wallace arrives with supplies, and later
            another steamboat arrives with provisions from Fort Armstrong. Volunteers begin march
            toward mouth of Rock River and camp is made 30 miles north of Yellow Banks on Camp
               Creek.<bibl default='NO'>John Reynolds, <title>Reynolds' History of Illinois. My Own Times: Embracing also the History of My
                  Life</title> (Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1879), 227; Elliott, <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois Soldiers</title>,
               xvii.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1832-05-07'>Monday,
  May 7, 1832.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to 
  <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Most of
  baggage wagons are used for officers' equipment. Privates carry cooking
  utensils and rations for eight to ten days. About nightfall volunteers, after
  marching 20 miles, make camp on Rock River. On May 8, 1832 Gov. Reynolds writes
  Gen. Atkinson from "Camp at the Old Sac Village," and next day Rock Island
  Indian agent Felix St. Vrain says that volunteers are "still encamped on the
  large Island [Vandruff's] in Rock River opposite the Old Village." Rock Island
  County tradition locates May 7, 1832, May 8, 1832, May 9, 1832, May 10, 1832
  camp on south side of river near town of Milan. Since Vandruff's Island lies
  between Milan and village on north side of river, it is not unlikely that camps
  extended from Milan to island and perhaps across to village; good fords cross
  both channels of river.<bibl default='NO'>Elliott,
  <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois
  Soldiers</title>, xvii; <title>Johnston Journal</title>, Black
  Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum,
  Springfield, IL; William Orr to John York Sawyer, 1 July 1832;
  <title>Journal of Felix St. Vrain</title>, 9 May 1832, Photo;
  Trans., 1921, 92-106.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-08'>Tuesday, May 8, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Gov. Reynolds turns troops over to Gen. Atkinson. Rumor spreads through
            camp that Black Hawk is coming down river. Gov. Reynolds' volunteers are mustered into
            Federal service. Gen. Atkinson reviews volunteers and orders troops to be ready to march
            at moment's notice.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;BHWC, <title>Johnston Journal; Atkinson Order Book</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-09'>Wednesday, May 9, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Gen. Atkinson and U.S. troops leave Fort Armstrong at 9:30 A.M. aboard Java,
    arriving at old Sauk village at 11 A.M. U.S. troops join volunteers at Rapids of Rock River, but
    steamboat is unable to pass rapids.<bibl default='NO'>Illinois Advocate, 15 May
     1832; IHi&#8212;BHWC, <title>Johnston Journal; Journal of Felix St.
     Vrain</title>, Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-10'>Thursday, May 10, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='41.6667, -89.9333' teiForm='name'>Prophetstown, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> By order of Gen. Atkinson, 1,500 volunteers under Gen. Whiteside march up
            left bank of Rock River, following trail taken by Black Hawk. Day's march is 26 miles.
            Gen. Atkinson and regulars follow in keel and mackinaw boats. Col. Zachary Taylor is in
            immediate command of regulars and unmounted Illinois infantry.<bibl default='NO'>Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk
                  War</title>, 126; Whiteside to Atkinson, 12 May 1832, Black Hawk War Collection,
               Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; Elliott, <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois Soldiers</title>,
               xvii.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-11'>Friday, May 11, 1832.</date>
            <place key='41.6667, -89.9333' teiForm='name'>Prophetstown, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Prophet's village is reached at noon. Stopping only long enough to burn
            Indian huts, men resume march. Twelve miles north, Gen. Whiteside abandons 20 baggage
            wagons, and orders forced march toward Dixon's Ferry. Camp is made eight miles south of
               ferry.<bibl default='NO'>Elliott, <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois Soldiers</title>, xvii; Whiteside to
               Atkinson, 18 May 1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential
               Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; John H. Wakefield, <title>Wakefield's History of the Black Hawk War</title> (Chicago: Caxton Club, 1908),
               41-44; John Reynolds, <title>Reynolds' History of Illinois. My Own
                  Times: Embracing also the History of My Life</title> (Chicago: Chicago Historical
               Society, 1879), 229; IHi&#8212;William Orr to John York Sawyer, 1 July
            1832.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-12'>Saturday, May 12, 1832.</date>
            <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon's Ferry, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Whiteside's army arrives at Dixon's Ferry at 10 A.M. with less than two
            days' provisions. Here Whiteside finds Maj. Isaiah Stillman with about 260 men. Gen.
            Whiteside refuses Gov. Reynolds' request to take command of Stillman's men.<bibl default='NO'>Whiteside to Atkinson, 12 May 1832, 18 May 1832, Black
               Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield,
               IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-13'>Sunday, May 13, 1832.</date>
            <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon's Ferry, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Battalions under Maj. Stillman and Maj. David Bailey march out, with four
            days' rations, for Old Man's Creek, where portion of Black Hawk's band is believed
            encamped. Gov. Reynolds, finding Stillman's and Bailey's troops too impatient to await
            arrival of Gen. Atkinson and regulars, gives them orders to move against Indians, "for
            the purpose of taking all cautious measures to coerce [them] into submission."<bibl default='NO'>Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>, 131-32; Whiteside to Atkinson, 18 May 1832, Black Hawk
               War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield,
            IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1832-05-14'>Monday,
  May 14, 1832.</date> 
            <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon's Ferry,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Gen. Whiteside's army remains inactive.
  <bibl default='NO'>Reynolds and Whiteside to Atkinson, Black
  Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum,
  Springfield, IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Several groups of Stillman's men
  rush out of camp at dusk and attack Black Hawk's truce bearers, bringing on
  battle with 40 or 50 Indians. Whites are soon routed. Leaving 12 dead, they
  flee to Dixon's Ferry.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 3 May 1832, 14 May 1832, 24 May 1832,
  6 October 1832; <title>Atkinson Letter Book</title>, Black Hawk
  War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield,
  IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-15'>Tuesday, May 15, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='42.1000, -89.1667' teiForm='name'>Stillman's
            Battlefield</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Survivors of Stillman's brush with Indians arrive at Dixon's Ferry in early
            morning with news of "terrible slaughter." Mad scramble of returning soldiers
            disheartens those encamped at Dixon's Ferry. Before daybreak, governor issues call for
            2,000 volunteers to rendezvous at Hennepin June 10, 1832.<bibl default='NO'>Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
               Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> At 7 A.M. Whiteside's army, including Capt. Lincoln's company, starts for
            site of Stillman's engagement. They arrive before sunset and find bodies scalped and
               mangled.<bibl default='NO'>Whiteside to Atkinson, 18 May 1832, Black
               Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield,
               IL; John H. Wakefield, <title>Wakefield's History of the Black Hawk
                  War</title> (Chicago: Caxton Club, 1908), 52; IHi&#8212;William Orr to John
               York Sawyer, 1 July 1832.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-16'>Wednesday, May 16, 1832.</date>
            <place key='42.1000, -89.1667' teiForm='name'>Stillman's Battlefield</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En
            route</place> to <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon's Ferry, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Dead soldiers are buried. Before return march to Dixon's Ferry begins, Gen.
            Whiteside draws up army in battle line, "doubtless by way of challenge to Black Hawk."
            Hasty march is made by hungry army back to ferry. Gen. Atkinson has not arrived.
            Volunteers are eager to go home, and only by earnest appeal of Gov. Reynolds are
            officers able to hold men. Gen. Atkinson is encamped six miles below Dixon's Ferry.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;BHWC, <title>Johnston
                  Journal</title>; Whiteside to Atkinson, 18 May 1832; William Orr to John York
               Sawyer, 1 July 1832; John Reynolds, <title>Reynolds' History of
                  Illinois. My Own Times: Embracing also the History of My Life</title> (Chicago:
               Chicago Historical Society, 1879), 236-37.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-17'>Thursday, May 17, 1832.</date>
            <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon's Ferry, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Atkinson arrives at noon with 320 regulars, volunteer infantry, and one
            six-pounder. Two Potawatomi chiefs come into camp and assure him that their people will
            remain peaceful. Volunteers camp south of river and regulars on north side. Order is
            issued against unauthorized firing of arms.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Atkinson Letter Book</title>, Black Hawk War Collection,
               Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>, 128.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln's company draws 10 quarts of meal and 10 pounds of pork, although
            by this time most quartermaster stores are issued to regiments rather than to
               companies.<bibl default='NO'>Quartermaster's Record, Black Hawk War
               Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-18'>Friday, May 18, 1832.</date>
            <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon's Ferry, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Col. William S. Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton, is dispatched with
            small party of spies to area of Stillman's defeat. Gen. Atkinson spends day organizing
            for march.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Johnston Journal</title>, Whiteside to Atkinson, Black Hawk
               War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield,
            IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-19'>Saturday, May 19, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> up <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Army starts up Rock River, regulars taking cannon and supplies by keelboat.
            Camp is made 12 to 14 miles from Dixon's Ferry.<bibl default='NO'>Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>,
               146-47; Elliott, <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois
                  Soldiers</title>, xvii; IHi&#8212;BHWC, <title>Atkinson Order
                  Book, Johnston Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1832-05-20'>Sunday,
  May 20, 1832.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> up 
  <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Army
  continues four miles and encamps on Rock River. Atkinson receives news of
  property destruction in La Salle County, and on Fox and Illinois rivers, where
  some men had been pursued by Indians but none killed.
  <bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;BHWC, J. B. Campbell and others to
  Atkinson, 19 May 1832; Atkinson to Gaines and Macomb, 23 May 1832;
  <title>Letter Book; Johnston Journal</title>; Elliott,
  <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois
  Soldiers</title>, xvii.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-21'>Monday, May 21, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> up <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Army meets William S. Hamilton at noon about six miles below Kishwaukee
            River. He reports that Indians had passed up that river. Regulars encamp above mouth of
            Old Man's Creek, and volunteers below. This is third camp above Dixon. Day's march is 16
            miles. On march up Rock, volunteers apparently follow trail which is sometimes distant
            from river, but they encamp on river each night with regulars, who are in charge of
               keelboats.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Johnston Journal</title>, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham
               Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; Elliott, <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois Soldiers</title>,
               xvii.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-22'>Tuesday, May 22, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='' teiForm='name'>Kishwaukee
            River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Gen. Atkinson, with regulars, returns to Dixon's Ferry, general
            headquarters and base of operations. Col. Zachary Taylor is ordered to accompany
            volunteers as inspector general, and to "superintend their movements, order of
            encampment, of battle, etc." Capt. W. S. Harney is sent along as assistant inspector.
            Gen. Whiteside with 1,400 men marches 10 miles northeast to Kishwaukee River.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Atkinson Letter Book</title>, Black Hawk War Collection,
               Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>, 161.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-23'>Wednesday, May 23, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='42.1667, -89.0667' teiForm='name'>Potawatomi
            Village</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Army marches 12 miles, following Indian trail to small Potawatomi village
            between the Kishwaukee and its south branch (both streams are sometimes called Sycamore
               Creek).<bibl default='NO'>Elliott, <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois Soldiers</title>, xvii; Zachary Taylor to
               Atkinson, 26 May 1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential
               Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> It is probably on this day that two men who have been out in search of
            their horses return to camp with the report that body of Indians going north toward Rock
            River has crossed army's trail. Gov. Reynolds calls council of brigade officers, who
            decide against pursuing Indians.<bibl default='NO'>Zachary Taylor to
               Atkinson, 26 May 1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential
               Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; John Reynolds, <title>Reynolds'
                  History of Illinois. My Own Times: Embracing also the History of My Life</title>
               (Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1879), 237-39; Whiteside to Atkinson, 27 May
               1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum,
               Springfield, IL; William Orr to John York Sawyer, 1 July 1832.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-24'>Thursday, May 24, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='' teiForm='name'>Fox River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Army moves 25 miles and encamps near Capa's village on South Branch, west
            of present Sycamore, Ill.<bibl default='NO'>Elliott, <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois Soldiers</title>,
               xvii; R. B. Way, ed., <title>The Rock River Valley</title>, 2 vols.
               (n.p., 1926), 1:118.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-25'>Friday, May 25, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='' teiForm='name'>Fox River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln's company marches 20 miles and encamps six miles from Paw Paw
               Grove.<bibl default='NO'>Elliott, <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois Soldiers</title>, xvii.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Some volunteers reach Fox River, 20 miles north of Ottawa; day is spent
            searching men for plunder taken from Indian villages.<bibl default='NO'>Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>,
               162; Taylor to Atkinson, 26 May 1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln
               Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1832-05-26'>Saturday,
  May 26, 1832.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to 
  <place key='41.3333, -88.8333' teiForm='name'>Ottawa, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Gen.
  Whiteside's army arrives at Ottawa and mustering out begins. Regiment to which
  Lincoln's company is attached marches 20 miles and encamps two miles above
  mouth of Fox River.<bibl default='NO'>Elliott,
  <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois
  Soldiers</title>, xvii; Taylor to Atkinson, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham
  Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At suggestion of Col. Taylor, Gov. Reynolds calls for
  re-enlistment of five or six companies to serve until new levies arrive.
  <bibl default='NO'>Taylor to Atkinson, Black Hawk War
  Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL;
  Reynolds to Atkinson, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential
  Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-27'>Sunday, May 27, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>Fort Johnson</place> at <place key='41.3333, -88.8333' teiForm='name'>Ottawa, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capt. Lincoln's company is mustered out of U.S. service by Nathaniel Buckmaster,
    Brigade major.<bibl default='NO'>John G. Nicolay and John Hay, <title>Abraham Lincoln: A History</title>, 10 vols. (New York: Century, 1890),
    1:96.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes muster roll of his company, certifying that remarks on activities
    of several members are accurate and just.<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He then enrolls in company of Capt. Elijah Iles for service in 20-day regiment.
     <bibl default='NO'>Muster Rolls, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln
     Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-28'>Monday, May 28, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>Fort Johnson</place> at <place key='41.3333, -88.8333' teiForm='name'>Ottawa, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [After all-day ride from Dixon's Ferry, Gen. Atkinson arrives in
               Ottawa.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Atkinson's Letter Book</title>, Black Hawk War Collection,
               Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-29'>Tuesday, May 29, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>Fort Johnson</place> at <place key='41.3333, -88.8333' teiForm='name'>Ottawa, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lt. Robert Anderson musters Lincoln and 71 others into company of mounted
            volunteers under Capt. Elijah Iles. Company contains former generals, colonels, and
            captains. Lincoln furnishes his own arms and horse. Arms are valued at $10 and horse and
            equipment at $120.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;BHWC, <title>Muster Roll, Atkinson Order Book</title>; IHi&#8212;<title>Journal</title>, X, 422-28 (Anderson to E. B. Washburne, 10 May
               1870).</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Lt. Robert Anderson, Third Regiment, U.S. Artillery, was appointed
            assistant inspector general of troops in field on May 9, 1832. Lt. Anderson's order of
            appointment was signed by Lt. Albert Sidney Johnston. Col. Jacob Fry, in command of
            re-enlisted volunteers, is ordered by Gen. Atkinson to put Ft. Johnson, on south side of
            Illinois River opposite mouth of Fox River, into best condition possible to protect
               inhabitants.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;<title>Journal</title>, X, 422-28 (Anderson to E. B. Washburne, 10 May 1870); <title>Atkinson Letter Book</title>.</bibl>]</p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-05-30'>Wednesday, May 30, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>Fort Johnson</place> at <place key='41.3333, -88.8333' teiForm='name'>Ottawa, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Gen. Atkinson returns in evening after hurried trip to Illinois Rapids
            (Peru), to see Gov. Reynolds. He has decided not to take up pursuit of Black Hawk until
            new militia forces arrive June 15, 1832.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Atkinson Letter Book</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>