Papers in Illinois history and transactions . were on their way to Fort Armstrong from Oquawka and \Ytretraveling on a keen canter four abreast. About seventy years agoJohn Edgington and Jimmy Robinson went to mill where Quincy,(111.), is now, and they traveled down that old army trail. Theydrove four or five yoke of cattle and would be gone a week. gave the route of the trail all the way from Camp Creek inMercer county to within a mile of Black Hawks village at RockIsland, including the Lincoln camp site in the northeast quarter ofthe northeast quarter of Sec. 27. He was hardl
Papers in Illinois history and transactions . were on their way to Fort Armstrong from Oquawka and \Ytretraveling on a keen canter four abreast. About seventy years agoJohn Edgington and Jimmy Robinson went to mill where Quincy,(111.), is now, and they traveled down that old army trail. Theydrove four or five yoke of cattle and would be gone a week. gave the route of the trail all the way from Camp Creek inMercer county to within a mile of Black Hawks village at RockIsland, including the Lincoln camp site in the northeast quarter ofthe northeast quarter of Sec. 27. He was hardly in a physical con-dition to be taken over the course in person, but his testimony corrob-orated, without any suggestion or question on our part, the accountsgiven by men who personally conducted us to places where the trailwas known to them. The reader will notice that two different descriptions are givenfor the Capt. Lincoln Camp site—the camp of the Illinois Volunteers,May 7th to 10th, 1832. In reality the two locations are just across. TlK liidiun and Alilitary Trail on the hillside at Turkey Hollow, showins;that the highways of the Indian suffered no less from heavy rains than doours of today. Messrs. Miller and Buffum appear in the picture.
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