. McClure's magazine. MONUMENT AT KELLOGG S GROVE. On June 24, 1832, Black Hawk attacked Apple RiverFort, fourteen miles east of Galena, Illinois, but was unableto drive out the inmates. The next day he attacked a spybattalion of one hundred and fifty men at Kelloggs Grove,sixteen miles further east. A detachment of volunteers re-lieved the battalion, and drove off the savages, about fifteenof whom were killed. The whites lost five men, who wereburied at various points in the grove. During the summerof 1886 the remains of these men were collected and, withthose of five or six other victims of
. McClure's magazine. MONUMENT AT KELLOGG S GROVE. On June 24, 1832, Black Hawk attacked Apple RiverFort, fourteen miles east of Galena, Illinois, but was unableto drive out the inmates. The next day he attacked a spybattalion of one hundred and fifty men at Kelloggs Grove,sixteen miles further east. A detachment of volunteers re-lieved the battalion, and drove off the savages, about fifteenof whom were killed. The whites lost five men, who wereburied at various points in the grove. During the summerof 1886 the remains of these men were collected and, withthose of five or six other victims of the war, were placed to-gether under the monument here represented.—See TheBlack Hawk War, by Reuben G. Thwaites, Vol. Wisconsin Historical Collections. This account of theBlack Hawk War is the most trustworthy, complete, andinteresting which has been made. 128 ABRAHAM JOHN REYNOLDS, GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS 1831-1834. After a steel engraving in the Governors office, Springfield, Reynolds, Governor of Illinois from 1831 to 1834, was born in Mont-gomery County, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1788. He was of Irish parent-age. When he was six months old his parents moved to Tennessee. In1800 they removed to Illinois. When twenty years old, John Reynolds wentto Knoxville, Tennessee, to college, where he spent two years. He was ad-mitted to the bar at Kaskaskia in 1812. In the war of 1812 he rendered dis-tinguished service, earning the title of the Old Ranger. He began thepractice of law in the spring of 1814. In 1818 he was made an associatejustice of the Supreme Court; in 1826 he was elected a member of the leg-islature : and in 1830, after a stirring campaign, he was chosen Governor ofIllinois. The most important event of his administration was the BlackHawk War. He was prompt in calling out the militia to subdue the BlackHawk, and went upon the
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