<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-07-01'>Sunday, July 1, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> up <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In afternoon army crosses into Michigan Territory (now Wisconsin) at Turtle
            Village, where Beloit now stands. Camp is made on "the plain between Rock river
            &amp; the creek."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Johnston Journal</title>, 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), 76-77.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-07-02'>Monday, July 2, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> up <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Army encamps opposite mouth of Yahara River (sometimes called River of the
            Four Lakes).<bibl default='NO'>
               <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='1832-07-03'>Tuesday, July 3, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> up <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capt. Early's company marches in advance of army. They find main trail of
            Black Hawk's band near southern outlet of Lake Koshkonong. Camp is made one and one-half
            miles below the lake until July 6, 1832. Early's company is busy performing spy and
            scout duty.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Johnston Journal</title>, 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), 78-80.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln's mess is composed of his stepbrother John D. Johnston, G. B.
            Fanchier, George M. Harrison, privates, and First Corp. R. M. Wyatt.<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' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-07-06'>Friday, July 6, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='' teiForm='name'>White Water River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Regulars and Henry's brigade march up east bank of Rock River under command of
    Gen. Brady. They camp four or five miles above mouth of White Water at an old Indian
     village.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;BHWC, <title>Atkinson
      Letter Book, Johnston Journal</title>; M. L. Clark to W. Clark, Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-07-07'>Saturday, July 7, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='' teiForm='name'>White Water River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Indians fire on camp, wounding soldier. Black Hawk is believed in camp in the
    fork of White Water and Rock. In search of ford, Gen. Atkinson advances up White Water over
    difficult and almost impassable route some 10 miles, and camps.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;BHWC, <title>Johnston Journal</title>, Atkinson to Adj. Gen.
     Roger Jones, 19 November 1832; <title>Journal of Ninevah Shaw</title>,
     Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1832-07-08'>Sunday,
  July 8, 1832.</date> Camp on <place key='' teiForm='name'>White Water River</place>,
  Old Indian Village.</dateline>
         <p> Indian guides advise Gen.
  Atkinson that White Water cannot be turned. Council of war is held, deciding to
  return to mouth of river, near present Fort Atkinson. After two-day chase
  through swamps and sink holes, enemy is as far away as ever. "If we had pushed
  on up the river," wrote Gov. Reynolds later, "by forced marches, for a day or
  two, the Indians would have been reached and the war ended." 
  <bibl default='NO'>John Reynolds, <title>Reynolds' History of Illinois. My Own Times: Embracing also the
  History of My Life</title> (Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1879),
  251.</bibl> On reaching camp site of 6th, army halts. 
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Atkinson Letter Book,
  Johnston Journal</title>, 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), 83.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1832-07-09'>Monday,
  July 9, 1832.</date> Camp on <place key='' teiForm='name'>White Water River</place>,
  Old Indian Village.</dateline>
         <p> Gen. Atkinson writes Gen.
  Winfield Scott: "The country is so cut up with Prairie, wood and swamp, that it
  is extremely difficult to approach them. Indeed many parts of the country for
  miles is entirely unpassable, even on foot. We are engaged at this moment [July
  9] in throwing a Bridge across this creek (White Water) with a view of getting
  up with the enemy, who is represented to be only five or six miles before us."
  Gen. Atkinson has 450 regulars, and about 2,100 mounted volunteers, with 100
  Indian allies.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Atkinson Letter Book</title>, Black Hawk War Collection,
  Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Early's company is probably one of scouting parties sent out in
  morning. They report Indians still nearby, but later party returns with news
  that Sauk have advanced "up the country" about 12 miles, causing Atkinson to
  postpone pursuit.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Atkinson Letter Book</title>, 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), 83-84; Stevens,
  <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>, 210;
  <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='1832-07-10'>Tuesday, July 10, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lacking provisions, volunteer troops are dispersed. Brigades of Alexander
            and Henry are sent to Fort Winnebago, now Portage, Wis., for supplies. Posey's brigade
            is sent to southern Wisconsin mineral district to remain until further orders, and Capt.
            Early's company is mustered out. Lincoln writes Early's mustering-out roll. Discharge
            papers sent by Capt. Early July 26, 1832 to Lincoln and other members of his company
            state that company is honorably discharged "with the special thanks of Brig. Gen. H.
            Atkinson, Commander in Chief of the Army of the Illinois Frontier . . . at Headquarters
            on White Water of Rock River."<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy; <title>Atkinson Letter Book, Atkinson Order Book</title>, Black Hawk War
               Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Early's company begins march to Dixon's Ferry. Stevens (211) says that
            Early's men accompany Col. John Ewing's regiment on march, but that regiment left army
            before 10th.<bibl default='NO'>Return of Illinois Mounted Volunteers,
               Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum,
               Springfield, IL; IHi&#8212;Eddy MSS, Affidavit of Tarlton Dunn, 2 August 1833;
                  <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 19 July 1832.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> It was probably detachment under Adj. Isaac Parmenter that Early's company
            escorted back to Dixon's Ferry.<bibl default='NO'>Muster Rolls, Black
               Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield,
               IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Night previous to starting home, Lincoln's horse and that of George M.
            Harrison are stolen.<bibl default='NO'>Harrison to W. H. Herndon, no
               date, William H. Herndon Papers, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> U.S. Infantry encamps near mouth of White Water.<bibl default='NO'>
               <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>
            <dateRange from='1832-07-11' to='1832-07-14'>July 11, 1832-July
               14,1832.</dateRange>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Four days are probably passed by Capt. Early's company in traveling 200
            miles to Peoria by way of Dixon's Ferry. Ferry is probably reached on night of 12th.
            Through generosity of friends, Lincoln and Harrison ride horseback part of way.<bibl default='NO'>George M. Harrison to W. H. Herndon, no date, William H.
               Herndon Papers, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA; Ward H. Lamon, <title>The Life of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His
               Inauguration</title> (Boston: Osgood, 1872), 118; Z. C. Palmer to Johnston, 13 July
               1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum,
               Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <dateRange from='1832-07-15' to='1832-07-16'>July 15,
  1832-July 16, 1832.</dateRange> 
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place> and 
  <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.3000, -90.0500' teiForm='name'>Havana,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Company breaks up at Peoria. Lincoln and
  Harrison purchase canoe and start down Illinois River. Stop is made at Pekin,
  where Lincoln makes oar and Harrison purchases provisions. Resuming journey,
  one pulls oar while other steers. River is very low and it is hard pull to
  "make half the speed of legs on land; in fact we let her float all night and in
  the morning always found objects still visible that were beside us the previous
  evening."</p>
         <p> They are invited aboard log raft to share meal of
  "fish, corn bread, eggs, butter and coffee . . . the only warm meal . . . for
  several days."<bibl default='NO'>George M. Harrison to W. H.
  Herndon, n.d., William H. Herndon Papers, Henry E. Huntington Library, San
  Marino, CA.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-07-17'>Tuesday, July 17, 1832.</date>
            <place key='40.3000, -90.0500' teiForm='name'>Havana, IL</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to
               <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Selling canoe in Havana, Lincoln and Harrison start afoot to New Salem.
            "The long strides of Lincoln after slipping back in the burning sand six inches every
            step were just right for me," wrote Harrison. "And he was greatly diverted when he
            noticed me behind him stepping in his tracks to keep from slipping."<bibl default='NO'>George M. Harrison to W. H. Herndon, n.d., William H. Herndon Papers,
               Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-07-19'>Thursday, July 19, 1832.</date>
            <place key='40.3000, -90.0500' teiForm='name'>Havana, IL</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to
               <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [<title>Sangamo Journal</title>, at Lincoln's request,
            carries correction: "Some weeks ago [May 3] we gave a list of those candidates [eight]
            of this County (omitting, by accident the name of Capt. Lincoln, of New Salem,) who were
            on the frontier periling their lives in the service of their country."]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-07-24'>Tuesday, July 24, 1832.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln certifies that Nathan Drake served in his company, having been
            enrolled April 29, 1832 and discharged June 8, 1832. "Given under my hand this 24th July
            1832. A. Lincoln, Captain."<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>