Black Hawk War
Americannoun
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For legal help, Bailey contacted an attorney friend there with whom he had served in the Black Hawk War: Abraham Lincoln.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 14, 2021
Jefferson Davis served the American people in the military in the Black Hawk War of 1832, after graduating from West Point in 1828.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2016
William Stephen The son who looked the most like his father fought in the Black Hawk War and was a U.S. surveyor of public lands in Illinois before heading to California in the gold rush.
From Time ● Dec. 28, 2015
Lincoln served in the Black Hawk War, but freely admitted that the toughest enemy he faced was the mosquitoes.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2012
In his short three-month enlistment during the Black Hawk War in 1832, he never saw combat.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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