Friday, May 11, 1832.Prophetstown, IL. | Prophet's village is reached at noon. Stopping only long enough to burn
Indian huts, men resume march. Twelve miles north, Gen. Whiteside abandons 20 baggage
wagons, and orders forced march toward Dixon's Ferry. Camp is made eight miles south of
ferry.Elliott, Services of Illinois Soldiers, xvii; Whiteside to
Atkinson, 18 May 1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; John H. Wakefield, Wakefield's History of the Black Hawk War (Chicago: Caxton Club, 1908),
41-44; John Reynolds, Reynolds' History of Illinois. My Own
Times: Embracing also the History of My Life (Chicago: Chicago Historical
Society, 1879), 229; IHi—William Orr to John York Sawyer, 1 July
1832. |