Sunday,
May 20, 1832.En route up
Rock River. | Army
continues four miles and encamps on Rock River. Atkinson receives news of
property destruction in La Salle County, and on Fox and Illinois rivers, where
some men had been pursued by Indians but none killed.
IHi—BHWC, J. B. Campbell and others to
Atkinson, 19 May 1832; Atkinson to Gaines and Macomb, 23 May 1832;
Letter Book; Johnston Journal; Elliott,
Services of Illinois
Soldiers, xvii. |