<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1832-06-04'>Monday,
  June 4, 1832.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>Fort Johnson</place> at 
  <place key='41.3333, -88.8333' teiForm='name'>Ottawa, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> After
  first volunteer force was mustered out at Ottawa, Gov. Reynolds, May 28, 1832,
  issued call for small ranger force and 1,000 volunteers, latter to rendezvous
  at Ottawa June 12, 1832 to augment 2,000 men governor called for on May 15,
  1832.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Reynolds Letter
  Book</title>, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
  and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Letter of Capt.
  Bowling Green to Gov. Reynolds, from Lincoln's home village of New Salem, June
  4, 1832, portrays attitude of Illinois frontier: "I have Raiseed A Malitia
  Company to Defend the frontiers if Necessary, we shall Wait your order if you
  think proper we should Like to Ranege on the frontiers at any of the points it
  is Dangerous the Boys has all got home well Except Hohimer, he is yet Like to
  Die. They appeared to Complain of the office[r]s when they first Come, but all
  appear satisfied, and willing to go back if it is thought proper, the people is
  alarmed in Fulton County and sent to me to Come with men to their assistanc no
  more, war is the order of the Day P.S. we are not anxious if the good of the
  Country Does not Require"<bibl default='NO'>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='1832-06-05'>Tuesday, June 5, 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 orders Capt. Iles' company to be ready to march "on an
            excursion of several days." Day is spent running bullets and getting flintlocks in
            order. Gen. Atkinson expresses satisfaction "at the prompt patriotic &amp; soldierly
            conduct of the Illinois Corps of Volunteers under Col. Fry," which includes Capt. Iles'
            company. He urges them to re-enlist at end of their 20 days' service, offering them
            preference over "new levies," and inviting them "in terms of confidence &amp; esteem
            to share with him in the trials, dangers, &amp; he hopes honors of anticipated
               conquest."<bibl default='NO'>Elijah Iles, <title>Sketches of Early Life and Times in Kentucky, Missouri, and Illinois</title>
               (Springfield, IL: Springfield Printing Co., 1883), 46; <title>Atkinson Order 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='1832-06-06'>Wednesday, June 6, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon's Ferry,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capt. Iles' company (reduced to about 50 men by assignment of detachment to
            help transport supplies from Illinois Rapids to Ottawa) leaves Ottawa on march to
            Dixon's Ferry with orders to report to Col. Zachary Taylor. "We wanted," wrote Capt.
            Iles, "to be as little encumbered as possible, and took nothing that could be dispensed
            with, other than blankets, tin cups, coffee pots, canteens, a wallet of bread, and some
            fat side meat, which we ate raw or broiled." Camp is made southeast of present town of
            Sublette in Lee County.<bibl default='NO'>Elijah Iles, <title>Sketches of Early Life and Times in Kentucky, Missouri, and
                  Illinois</title> (Springfield, IL: Springfield Printing Co., 1883), 46-48;
               Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>,
            286.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-06-07'>Thursday, June 7, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon's Ferry, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capt. Iles' company reaches Dixon's Ferry in afternoon, and camps at spring
            half mile above ferry on left bank of river. Iles and Lt. Col. James D. Henry, who has
            come along for excitement, cross river and report to Col. Taylor. A few days before,
            when Taylor ordered company of volunteers to march to Galena, the men refused. Taylor
            wrote: "The more I see of the militia the less confidence I have of their effecting any
            thing of importance."<bibl default='NO'>Elijah Iles, <title>Sketches of Early Life and Times in Kentucky, Missouri, and
                  Illinois</title> (Springfield, IL: Springfield Printing Co., 1883), 46-48; Taylor
               to Atkinson, 2 June 1832, 9 June 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='1832-06-08'>Friday, June 8, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='42.4167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Galena, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capt. Iles is ordered to Galena. He is to examine country for Indians and
            collect information. At sundown company meets Col. Henry Dodge of Michigan Territory
            (now Wisconsin) with about 100 mounted men who are en route to Atkinson's headquarters.
            Camp is made 20 miles from Dixon's Ferry.<bibl default='NO'>Elijah Iles,
                  <title>Sketches of Early Life and Times in Kentucky, Missouri, and
                  Illinois</title> (Springfield, IL: Springfield Printing Co., 1883), 46-48;
               Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>, 286;
               Taylor to Atkinson, 9 June 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='1832-06-09'>Saturday, June 9, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='42.4167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Galena, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> March to Galena continues. Camp is made 100 yards from Apple River fort.
            There, the night before, Indians stole 12 horses, and today they shot at and chased two
            men into fort. Company sleeps with guns in their arms. Lt. Col. Henry drills men during
            night, forming them into two lines, front ready to fire and fall back to reload while
            other line steps forward.<bibl default='NO'>James M. Strode to Atkinson,
               10 June 1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
               Museum, Springfield, IL; Elijah Iles, <title>Sketches of Early Life
                  and Times in Kentucky, Missouri, and Illinois</title> (Springfield, IL:
               Springfield Printing Co., 1883), 48-49.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1832-06-10'>Sunday,
  June 10, 1832.</date> 
            <place key='42.4167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Galena, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> When company arrives in Galena, they find townspeople
  demoralized. They report later to Col. Taylor that citizens are so terrified
  they would take no measures to prevent Indians recrossing Mississippi "were
  they to pass in sight of their doors."<bibl default='NO'>Taylor
  to Atkinson, 13 June 1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln
  Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; Elijah Iles,
  <title>Sketches of Early Life and Times in Kentucky, Missouri,
  and Illinois</title> (Springfield, IL: Springfield Printing Co., 1883), 49-50;
  Strode 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='1832-06-11'>Monday, June 11, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon's Ferry, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> With letters and dispatches from Col. James M. Strode, Capt. Iles begins
            return march to Dixon's Ferry. Camp is made on same spot, near Apple River fort, used on
               9th.<bibl default='NO'>Elijah Iles, <title>Sketches of
                  Early Life and Times in Kentucky, Missouri, and Illinois</title> (Springfield, IL:
               Springfield Printing Co., 1883), 49-50; Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>, 286.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-06-12'>Tuesday, June 12, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon's Ferry, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> March continues. Camp is made on site used on 8th.<bibl default='NO'>Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk
                  War</title>, 286; Elijah Iles, <title>Sketches of Early Life and
                  Times in Kentucky, Missouri, and Illinois</title> (Springfield, IL: Springfield
               Printing Co., 1883), 49-50.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-06-13'>Wednesday, June 13, 1832.</date>
            <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon's Ferry, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capt. Iles brings his company into Dixon's Ferry. At Buffalo Grove, 12
            miles from ferry, they pass camp of 170 Sioux, Menominee, and Winnebago Indians, under
            command of Col. William S. Hamilton. Capt. Iles reports signs of small parties of
            hostile Indians who have committed minor depredations, but who seem more anxious to get
            horses than scalps.<bibl default='NO'>Elijah Iles, <title>Sketches of Early Life and Times in Kentucky, Missouri, and Illinois</title>
               (Springfield, IL: Springfield Printing Co., 1883), 49-50; Taylor 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='1832-06-14'>Thursday, June 14, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='' teiForm='name'>Illinois River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capt. Iles, charged with delivery of Col. Taylor's letter of June 13, 1832
            to Gen. Atkinson, probably leaves Dixon's Ferry this morning for Illinois River. On 12th
            Gen. Atkinson moved his headquarters from Ottawa to Fort Wilbourn, recently erected near
            Crosiar's ferry on south side of Illinois River at foot of rapids. Fort is one and
            one-half miles below Little Vermilion River at head of steamboat navigation.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;BHWC, Taylor to Atkinson, 13 June 1832;
                  <title>Johnston Journal</title>, 12 June 1832; <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 28 June 1832; John M. Peck, <title>A Gazetteer of Illinois</title> (Jacksonville, IL: Goudy, 1834),
               219.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-06-16'>Saturday, June 16, 1832.</date>
            <place key='41.3333, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Fort Wilbourn, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capt. Iles' company is mustered out by Lt. Robert Anderson. Lincoln
            re-enlists for 30 days as private in independent spy company under Capt. Jacob M. Early,
            Springfield preacher and physician who was private in companies of Lincoln and
               Iles.<bibl default='NO'>Elliott, <title corresp='books_Elliott'>Services of Illinois Soldiers</title>, 174-76.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Spy company is given privileges-camping within lines, freedom from camp
            duties, and drawing rations as often and as much as they please.<bibl default='NO'>George M. Harrison to W. H. Herndon, no date, William H. Herndon
               Papers, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-06-17'>Sunday, June 17, 1832.</date>
            <place key='41.3333, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Fort Wilbourn, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Gen. Atkinson issues order against vending ardent spirits to Illinois
               volunteers.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Atkinson Order 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='1832-06-20'>Wednesday, June 20, 1832.</date>
            <place key='41.3333, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Fort Wilbourn, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capt. Early's company is mustered into service.<bibl default='NO'>Muster Roll, 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='1832-06-22'>Friday,
  June 22, 1832.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to 
  <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon's Ferry, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capt.
  Early is ordered to proceed with his company of spies to Dixon's Ferry and
  report to Gen. Hugh Brady. Early's company remains at Dixon's Ferry until June
  25, 1832.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <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='1832-06-25'>Monday, June 25, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='42.2958, -89.8814' teiForm='name'>Kellogg's Grove,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Battle is fought June 25, 1832 at Kellogg's Grove, about 38 miles northwest
            of Dixon's Ferry, between small force under Maj. John Dement and party of Sauk commanded
            by Black Hawk. Five white men are killed. Maj. Dement calls for assistance. At 4 P.M.
            Capt. Early's company is dispatched to grove.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;BHWC, Gen. Alexander Posey to Atkinson, 26 June 1832; Early to
               Atkinson, 26 June 1832; Broadside, 10 July 1834.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-06-26'>Tuesday, June 26, 1832.</date>
            <place key='42.2958, -89.8814' teiForm='name'>Kellogg's Grove, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capt. Early writes Gen. Atkinson: "I arrived here by day brake this morning
            [26th] &amp; found Gen. Posey's men encamped here The circumstances connected with
            the attack on Maj. Dement's Bat[talion].are as well as I can gather substantially these
            Yesterday morning the Maj. ordered out a small party for the purpose of examining a
            trail leading to the Mississippi The detachment had not proceeded more than half a mile
            when they discovered a few Indians at a small distance from them the men rushed on them
            in a disorderly manner till they came to the main body of Indians where they were
            secreted in a thicket on seeing the Indians the men wheeled &amp; fled precipitately
            &amp; all the efforts of Maj. Dement to rally them were unavailing (for at the time
            the men commenced retreating before the Indians Maj. Dement came up with a reinforcement
            from the garrison The Maj. stated to me that his force on the field was equal in numbers
            to that of the enemy After the men retreated to the fort the Indians surrounded the
            house &amp; commenced killing the Horses, they kept up a constant fire on the House
            &amp; Horses for 2 or 3 hours. Major Dement Lost 5 killed &amp; several wounded
            but none mortally when the Indians left the ground they retreated toward their
            encampment on the 4 lakes</p>
         <p> "When Gen Posey came up about an hour by sun he sent a regiment in the
            direction in which the Indians had retired. When they had proceeded about &#189;
            mile the Indians showed themselves from a thick wood which skirted the praeria . . .
            they [regiment] retired to their camps without engaging the enemy. The trail spoken of
            above has not yet been examined. Gen Posey says he will send a detachment with me to
            examine it. As soon as I see it you shall have the best information in my power to give
               you."<bibl default='NO'>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='1832-06-28'>Thursday, June 28, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon's Ferry,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capt. Early's company starts back to Dixon's Ferry from Kellogg's
               Grove.<bibl default='NO'>Lt. Col. Wm. Davenport to Atkinson, Black
               Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield,
               IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Brig. Gen. James D. Henry's brigade of volunteers, and regulars under Col.
            Zachary Taylor, accompanied by Gen. Atkinson and Gov. Reynolds, leave Dixon's Ferry at
            noon and take up line of march along left bank of Rock River. Each horseman packs 15
            days' provisions. Twelve miles out, army camps.<bibl default='NO'>Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>,
               203-4; <title>Johnston Journal</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='1832-06-29'>Friday,
  June 29, 1832.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> up 
  <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stillman's
  battlefield is reached in afternoon and army makes camp. Early's company
  reaches Dixon's Ferry some time before 6 A.M., and probably accompanies Col.
  Enoch C. March and John Marsh to Atkinson's camp.
  <bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;BHWC, <title>Johnston Journal; Atkinson Letter Book</title>, Lt. Reuben
  Holmes to Atkinson, Atkinson to Wm. S. Hamilton.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-06-30'>Saturday, June 30, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> up <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Army crosses Kishwaukee River and four miles above touches Rock River
            "which is very narrow at this place &amp; continues to decrease in width rapidly to
            its source."<bibl default='NO'>LNT&#8212;<title>Johnston Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>