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National Government. The terras of this treaty in- 

 cluded a pledge on the part of Black Hawk not to 

 return to the east side of the river or give any more 

 trouble to the white settlers. 



In the following winter, Black Hawk refused to 

 keep the treaty any longer and in April, 1832, he and 

 about five hundred of his braves crossed the Mississippi 

 at Burlington and moved up the east bank of the river 

 with his women and children, intending to drive out 

 the settlers and return to their old village on the 

 Island. The Winnebagoes and other Indians were to 

 have assisted him in recovering the land. This news 

 soon reached Saint Louis and Colonel Atkinson with 

 a body of infantry left that city for Rock Island. 

 Zachary Taylor, afterwards President of the United 

 States, was in command of a company, and Lieutenant 

 Jefferson Davis, afterwards President of the Confed- 

 erate States, was attached to the same regiment through- 

 out this campaign. 



About two thousand volunteers were brought for- 

 ward by Governor Reynolds of Illinois, assembling 

 at Beardstown and marching to Yellow Banks, fifty 

 miles below Rock Island. They moved to the mouth 

 of Rock River where they were joined by Colonel 

 Atkinson and his regulars. The volunteers were 

 under the command of General Whiteside, and Abra- 

 ham Lincoln, afterwards President of the United 

 States, served under him as captain of a company. 

 The Indians had ascended Rock River and halted 

 opposite Rock Island, the women and children having 

 been sent higher up the river in canoes. Black Hawk 

 now made an attempt to capture Fort Armstrong, 

 He crossed to the Island with his warriors in the 



