<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-08-04'>Saturday, August 4, 1832.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and other candidates make closing speeches of campaign. Stephen T.
            Logan recalled that Lincoln spoke in old court house in Springfield. "He was," says
            Logan, "a very tall and gawky and rough looking fellow then&#8212;his pantaloons
            didn't meet his shoes by six inches. But after he began speaking I became very much
            interested in him. He made a very sensible speech . . . attacking Benton's theory [of
            gold circulation] and I thought he did it very well."<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;<title>Bulletin</title>, No. 12.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1832-08-06'>Monday,
  August 6, 1832.</date> 
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is defeated in his first campaign for legislature,
  running eighth in field of 13 candidates. He receives 277 of 300 votes cast
  [viva voce] in New Salem precinct. John T. Stuart receives 182, second highest
  vote. Lincoln receives 657 votes in Sangamon County. Four candidates elected
  are Edmund D. Taylor, John T. Stuart, Achilles Morris, and Peter Cartwright.
  George Forquer defeats William F. Elkin, 1086 to 1077, for senator from
  Sangamon.<bibl default='NO'>Theodore C. Pease, ed.,
  <title>Illinois Election Returns, 1818-1848</title>, vol. 18 of
  <title>Collections of the Illinois State Historical
  Library</title> (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1923), 5;
  Thomas, <title corresp='Thomas2'>Lincoln's New Salem</title>,
  59-60.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='New' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1832-08-08'>Wednesday, August 8, 1832.</date> 
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New
  Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes and signs a note
  certifying that John M. Rutledge "served as a private in the company under my
  command" during the Black Hawk War. Lincoln signs the note, "A Lincoln. Capt". 
  <bibl default='NO'>Certificate of Military Service, 8 August 1832, Record Group 15A,
  National Archives Building, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='New' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1832-08-15'>Wednesday, August 15, 1832.</date> 
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New
  Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes and signs a note
  certifying that Thomas Pierce "served as a private" in Lincoln's company during
  the Black Hawk War. <bibl default='NO'>Certificate of Military Service, 15 August 1832,
  Record Group 15A, National Archives Building, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-08-18'>Saturday, August 18, 1832.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln probably attends county wide meeting to choose delegates to state
            meeting at Vandalia to select anti-Jackson electoral ticket. Sangamon delegates are
            pledged to vote for Henry Clay for President.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 25 August 1832.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New' TEIform='div2'> 
  <dateline TEIform='dateline'> <date value='1832-08-30' TEIform='date'>Thursday,
  August 30, 1832.</date> <place teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
  <p TEIform='p'>Lincoln completes and signs a form certifying that during the
  Black Hawk War, David Rutledge "served as a private in the Company of Mounted
  Volunteers" under Lincoln's "command." Lincoln attests that Rutledge was
  "honorably discharged" on June 7, 1832. <bibl>Certificate of Discharge for
  David Rutledge, 30 August 1832, Lincoln Manuscripts, Indiana University,
  Bloomington, IN.</bibl></p> </div2>