. McClure's magazine. as yet excit-ing the country, an event occurred whichinterrupted all of Lincolns plans. THE BLACK HAWK WAR. One morning in April a messenger fromthe governor of the State rode into New Salem scattering a circular. It was an ad-dress from Governor Reynolds to the mili-tia of the northwest section of the State,announcing that the British band of Sacsand other hostile Indians, headed by BlackHawk, had invaded the Rock River coun-try, to the great terror of the frontier in-habitants; and calling on the citizens whowere willing to aid in repelling them, torendezvous at Beardst
. McClure's magazine. as yet excit-ing the country, an event occurred whichinterrupted all of Lincolns plans. THE BLACK HAWK WAR. One morning in April a messenger fromthe governor of the State rode into New Salem scattering a circular. It was an ad-dress from Governor Reynolds to the mili-tia of the northwest section of the State,announcing that the British band of Sacsand other hostile Indians, headed by BlackHawk, had invaded the Rock River coun-try, to the great terror of the frontier in-habitants; and calling on the citizens whowere willing to aid in repelling them, torendezvous at Beardstown within a week. The name of Black Hawk was familiarto the people of Illinois. He was an oldenemy of the settlers, and hadteen a triedfriend of the British. The land this peoplehad once owned in the northwest of thepresent State of Illinois had been sold in1804 to the government of the UnitedStates, but with the provision that the In-dians should hunt and raise corn there un-til it was surveyed and sold to 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 LINCOLN.
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