May 07, 1832

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            <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> 
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