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20100405 CDC. . . .Stone Mountain. . . .and in the late afternoon we arrived in Savannah. . . .18630405 Fisk ordered from Fort Pemberton back to Helena, AR. . . .18620405 Telegram from Halleck confirms Curtis' plans to move east from Pea Ridge, advises him Van Dorn is in Jacksonport, AR. Brig-Gen Frederick Steele's division-sized force will join with Curtis. . . .18320405 A band of roughly one thousand Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo men, women, and children under the leadership of Black Hawk cross the Mississippi River into Illinois near the mouth of the Iowa River. Black Hawk had formerly led Sauk, Fox, and other native warriors against his people's enemies, including Americans, for nearly fifty years; now he seeks not honor, horses, captives, and scalps, but freedom and peace on the lands of the Winnebago prophet. Black Hawk's dreams of a peaceful retirement will be shattered when the U.S. Army, the Illinois militia, and groups of Sioux and Menominee warriors start to pursue his band within a couple weeks of the crossing of the Mississippi.
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