GDG- a small man, with a scar on his face

[Dennis Lawrence]

 From Springfield Lincoln answers inquiry regarding term of service of 
member of his Black Hawk War company. He does not remember whether 
discharge was given, and does not know where to find company rolls. Abraham 
Lincoln to W. F. Boggs, 14 May 1855, CW, 2:311-12.

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To W. F. Boggs [1]
W. F. Boggs, Esq. Springfield, Ills,
Kingston, Mo. May 14- 1855

Although my christian name is Abraham, and not Edward, the within letter is 
evidently intended for me. Whether I ever gave Mr. Barnett a discharge I 
can not remember; nor do I know whether it would now be proper for me [to] 
give him one, not having, or knowing where to find, any of the old rolls or 
papers of my company. I do very well remember, however, that Clardy 
Barnett, a small man, with a scar on his face, and not far from my own age, 
which is now 46, did serve more than fourteen days (near forty I think) in 
the company of which I had the command as Captain, in Col. --- Thompson2 
Regiment of Mounted Volunteers, in the Black-Hawk War of 1832---and that he 
was entitled to an honorable discharge. We went from Sangamon county, 
Illinois; and Samuel Whiteside of Madison Co, Ills, was our Brigadier 
General. Yours &c. A. LINCOLN---
Annotation

[1]   ALS, IHi. Lincoln wrote on the back of a letter from Boggs, who was 
trying to obtain for Barnett the land bounty voted by congress to 
volunteers who had served in the Black Hawk War.

[2]   Samuel M. Thompson.

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Twenty Three years earlier!

Monday, May 14, 1832.
Dixon's Ferry, IL.
	

Gen. Whiteside's army remains inactive.Reynolds and Whiteside to Atkinson, 
Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, 
Springfield, IL.

Several groups of Stillman's men rush out of camp at dusk and attack Black 
Hawk's truce bearers, bringing on battle with 40 or 50 Indians. Whites are 
soon routed. Leaving 12 dead, they flee to Dixon's Ferry


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On May 14, 1607, the first permanent British settlement in North America 
was established at Jamestown, Virginia by the Virginia Company Charter."We 
landed all our men," George Percy wrote in his account of the event, "which 
were set to worke [sic] about the fortification, and others some to watch 
and ward as it was convenient."1

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