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former for duty, and was sent by him to take charge of the
Indians captured at Bad Axe. It was Anderson who conducted Black
Hawk to Jefferson Barracks. His adjutant in this task was Lieutenant
Jefferson Davis. From 1835-37 Anderson was an instructor at West
Point. He served in the Florida War in 1837-38, and was wounded at
Molino del Rey in the Mexican War. In 1857 he was appointed Major
of the First Artillery. On November 20, 1860, Anderson assumed
command of the troops in Charleston Harbor. On April 14 he
surrendered Fort Sumter, marching out with the honors of war. He was

made brigadier-general by Lincoln for his service. On account of
failing health he was relieved from duty in October, 1861. In 1865 he
was brevetted major-general. He died in France in 1871.]
While the country had been dreaming of wealth through the opening of
the Sangamon, and Lincoln had been doing his best to prove that the
dream was possible, the store in which he clerked was "petering
out"--to use his own expression. The owner, Denton Offutt, had proved
more ambitious than wise, and Lincoln saw that an early closing by the
sheriff was probable. But before the store was fairly closed, and while
the "Talisman" was yet exciting the country, an event occurred which
interrupted all of Lincoln's plans.
THE BLACK HAWK WAR.
One morning in April a messenger from the governor of the State rode
into New Salem scattering a circular. It was an address from Governor
Reynolds to the militia of the northwest section of the State,
announcing that the British band of Sacs and other hostile Indians,
headed by Black Hawk, had invaded the Rock River country, to the
great terror of the frontier inhabitants; and calling on the citizens who
were willing to aid in repelling them, to rendezvous at Beardstown
within a week.
[Illustration: MONUMENT AT KELLOGG'S GROVE.
On June 24, 1832, Black Hawk attacked Apple River Fort, fourteen
miles east of Galena, Illinois, but was unable to drive out the inmates.
The next day he attacked a spy battalion of one hundred and fifty men
at Kellogg's Grove, sixteen miles further east. A detachment of
volunteers relieved the battalion, and drove off the savages, about
fifteen of whom were killed. The whites lost five men, who were buried
at various points in the grove. During the summer of 1886 the remains
of these men were collected and, with those of five or six other victims
of the war, were placed together under the monument here
represented.--See "The Black Hawk War," by Reuben G. Thwaites, Vol.
XII. in Wisconsin Historical Collections. This account of the Black
Hawk War is the most trustworthy, complete, and interesting which has
been made.]
The name of Black Hawk was familiar to the people of Illinois. He was
an old enemy of the settlers, and had been a tried friend of the British.
The land his people had once owned in the northwest of the present

State of Illinois had been sold in 1804 to the government of the United
States, but with the provision that the Indians should hunt and raise
corn there until it was surveyed and sold to settlers.
[Illustration: JOHN REYNOLDS, GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS
1831-1834.
After a steel engraving in the Governor's office, Springfield, Illinois.
John Reynolds, Governor of Illinois from 1831 to 1834, was born in
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1788. He was of Irish
parentage. When he was six months old his parents moved to
Tennessee. In 1800 they removed to Illinois. When twenty years old,
John Reynolds went to Knoxville, Tennessee, to college, where he
spent two years. He was admitted to the bar at Kaskaskia in 1812. In
the war of 1812 he rendered distinguished service, earning the title of
"the Old Ranger." He began the practice of law in the spring of 1814.
In 1818 he was made an associate justice of the Supreme Court; in
1826 he was elected a member of the legislature; and in 1830, after a
stirring campaign, he was chosen Governor of Illinois. The most
important event of his administration was the Black Hawk War. He was
prompt in calling out the militia to subdue the Black Hawk, and went
upon the field in person. In November, 1834, just before the close of
his term as Governor, he resigned to become a member of Congress. In
1837, aided by others, he built the first railroad in the State--a short line
of six miles from his coal mine in the Mississippi bluff to the bank of
the river opposite St. Louis. It was operated by horse power. He again
became a member of the legislature in 1846 and 1852, during the latter
term being Speaker of the House. In 1860, in his seventy-third