The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life
Fulton, on page 228, insists that the head was first stolen, but
being frightened, Turner threw it into his saddle-bags and ran
away to return later and procure the body; but as a discrepancy
exists as to his dates, it is possible he was mistaken in other
details.
Footnote 285:
A story has been told that Capt. Lincoln’s first command was
answered by being told to “go to the devil.”
Footnote 286:
Another volunteered at Beardstown, April 29th, and another at
Dixon’s Ferry, May 19, making the total strength of the company
seventy men.
Footnote 287:
Journal O.H. Browning.
Footnote 288:
His strength was full three-fourths of the company.
Footnote 289:
Nicolay and Hay.
Footnote 290:
Lamon 110.
Footnote 291:
Lt. Robert Anderson mustered Private Lincoln into that company.
Footnote 292:
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, p. 219.
Footnote 293:
Mr. Poore was not exact in his quotations from that speech, but
near enough the truth to escape the charge of error.
Footnote 294:
Col. E.C. March and others.
Footnote 295:
Flagler’s Rock Island Arsenal, p. 21.
Footnote 296:
Stephenson’s.
Footnote 297:
Jefferson Davis, a memoir by his wife. Vol. 1, p. 133.
Footnote 298:
He died of consumption incited and accelerated by that exposure.
Footnote 299:
Robert Anderson did take the second installment as far as Ft.
Armstrong, where he was compelled to enter the hospital, from
cholera.
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Transcriber’s Note:
Minor errors or inconsistencies of punctuation or formatting have
been corrected silently. Where it seems most likely that spelling
errors were made by the printer, they have been corrected as noted
below. Most quoted material is not noticeably lax in this regard,
perhaps because the author made his own corrections.
However, spelling of proper names can vary and are generally allowed
to stand, even where the Index disagrees with the referred text. For
instance, the index entry ‘Blackmaars, Mich.’ refers to the
possessive form ‘Blackmaar’s’ in the text. It is not clear whether
the reference is to a village or merely the residence of a family of
that name. Similarly, the entry for ‘Davitts ——’ refers to
‘Davitt’s’. A less trustworthy entry for ‘Dee Sulhorst, Justus’
refers to 'the farm of Justus DeSeelhorst’. The latter spelling is
borne out by historical records, but the index has not been
corrected.
The entry for ‘Phillipps Ferry’ (‘Phillip’s Ferry’ in the text), was
considered an error and corrected by removing the redundant letter.
The index entry for ‘Guyol de Guirano’ appears as ‘Guirano, Guyolde’
which has been deemed an error and corrected.
The entry for ‘Na-i-o-gui-man omits the page reference to p. 67. The
entry for Wallace Revell also omitted the reference to p. 138, n.
125.
The entry for ‘Order No. 45, to L’t. Lowman’, refers to a Lt. Samuel
Bowman, and has been corrected.
In the appendix, p. 293 seems to have been missed during the editing
of the original text. On that page, O.H. Browning is listed in the
printed text as ‘O.S. Browning’ (which was hand-corrected in the
text), referring to the future Senator O.H. Browning. The correction
has been retained. Handwritten notes in the text also point out that
a number of references on p. 293 were missed in the compilation of
the index (for Joseph E. Johnson, John A. McClernand, and Capt.
Harrison Wilson). Given that there may be other omissions, these
were not added and are merely noted here.
The caption for the image of Rachael Munson between pp. 154 and 155
misspelled her first name (as ‘Rachel’), which was corrected for
consistency. As noted below this variant appeared also on p. 152.
This table summarizes any corrections which were made to the text.
p. 32 n. 14 Am. State Papers, V, 689, 690, _Sic._ 693?
[663]
p. 40 sudden[t] halt Removed.
p. 58 gen[e]ral orders Added.
p. 101 This forty-mile [s]trip Added.
p. 107 [“]‘Chiefs and Warriors of the Added.
Sacs and Foxes:
“[‘]It becomes our duty, Added.
p. 126 General Atkinson is[s]ued Added.
p. 131 with ma[ura/rau]ding bands and Corrected.
murderers.
p. 145 the foll[o]wing day Added.
p. 150 [“]We passed on to the creek Added.
p. 152 out of Rach[a]el’s head Added.
p. 168 a harm[l]ess child Added.
p. 193 sett[t]lers Removed.
p. 204 rat[i]ons per man Added.
p. 210 but th[o]roughly discouraged Added.
p. 229 [“]For two whole days Added.
p. 305 a [course] dough for _Sic._
subsistence