May 15, 1832

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            <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>
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         <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>
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