Wednesday, May 2, 1832.En route to Yellow Banks,
IL. | March of 20 miles is made. Volunteers camp on large prairie, two miles from
timber or water, 18 miles south of Yellow Banks. Much dissatisfaction and murmuring is
heard from troops about cold and dampness of ground.Diary of O. H. Browning, in Stevens, Black Hawk War, 117-18. |