May 11, 1832

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            <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>
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