Wednesday, June 16, 1841.Springfield, IL. | Lincoln returns to find Springfield wildly hunting for body of Archibald
Fisher, who came to town May 31, 1841 with William and Henry Trailor, but disappeared,
believed murdered by William, Henry, and Archibald Trailor. Hickox's milldam on Spring
Creek was torn down on the 14th and thorough but fruitless search made in brush along
creek.Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
Speed, 19 June 1841, CW, 1:254-58. |