The U.S. federal government has organized a…

The U.S. federal government has organized a military force to repulse Black Hawk’s band when they cross the Mississippi for the 1832 spring planting.

Jefferson Davis is an officer of the force; Abraham Lincoln, elected captain of his volunteer company, is among the soldiers.

The soldiers, sometimes aided in the pursuit by other tribes, have spent the past fifteen weeks chasing Black Hawk and his people into Wisconsin and to the Mississippi, where on August 2, 1832, the soldiers virtually annihilate the remnant of Black Hawk’s band as they attempt to escape across the river.