May 16, 1832

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            <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>
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