Saturday, June 9, 1832.En route to Galena, IL. | March to Galena continues. Camp is made 100 yards from Apple River fort.
There, the night before, Indians stole 12 horses, and today they shot at and chased two
men into fort. Company sleeps with guns in their arms. Lt. Col. Henry drills men during
night, forming them into two lines, front ready to fire and fall back to reload while
other line steps forward.James M. Strode to Atkinson,
10 June 1832, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
Museum, Springfield, IL; Elijah Iles, Sketches of Early Life
and Times in Kentucky, Missouri, and Illinois (Springfield, IL:
Springfield Printing Co., 1883), 48-49. |