| Thursday,
December 20, 1832.New
Salem, IL. | Governor John Reynolds commissions Lincoln as
a captain of a rifle company in the Thirty-first Regiment of Illinois Militia.
Thomas Wigginton is also commissioned captain and Coonrod Elmore second
lieutenant. Commission Records, 1809-1836, 15:485, 1830-1843,
16:19, Adjutant General Records, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL;
Executive Record, 1832-1837, 2:13, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL;
Wayne C. Temple, Lincoln’s Arms, Dress and Military Duty During
and After the Black Hawk War (Springfield: State of Illinois Military
and Naval Department, 1981), 17. |