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- On July 1, 1832, here beside Storrs
Lake, Brigadier General Henry
- ATKINSON and 4,500 soldiers camped
overnight in pursuit of Black Hawk, Sac Indian chief, who was
fleeing northward up the east side of Rock River with 400 warriors
and 1,200 women and children.
- In a diary dated July 1, 1832, Lt.
Albert Sidney JOHNSTON wrote: "After
- marching 23 miles (from Turtle Village)
this day, we camped by a small lake, and had to drink the water,
which was very bad, but is was all that could be found. Here
General ATKINSON had, on this night, breastworks thrown up, which
was easily done, as we encamped in thick timber.... (July 2)
This morning the army proceeded almost directly north towards
Lake Coshkonong."
- Among Captain EARLY's mounted scouts
was the 23-year-old Abraham
- LINCOLN, finishing his third 30-day
enlistment. General Atkinson's Army of the Frontier had entered
Wisconsin at Turtle Village (Beloit) where it camped on June
30. It then moved north through the Prairie Road area to this
lake east of Milton. On July 2, the army moved north again and
camped on Otter Creek about two miles east of Lake Koshkonong,
before entering Jefferson county. At Cold Spring, on July 10,
Lincoln was mustered out, his horse was stolen, and he returned
by foot and canoe to New Salem, Illinois.
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- Erected in 1976
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