User:IvoShandor/Black Hawk War/Related articles needing created

Listed here are articles relating to the 1832 Black Hawk War that are badly in need of creation and exist as red links throughout the battle and other war related articles. If applicable, for structure considerations you may want to consult this section of WikiProject Military history. You can also check out a list of articles that already exist but need some work that are related to this collaboration as well. Bolded articles are of the utmost importance.

Engagement articles needing created

Battle of Cassville

• This seems to have been a massacre a yr earlier, we'll come back to this.
• Also will be added to the campaign box.
• See note above.
• Trask book p. 83

• More research is needed to determine exactly which incident was what on this one. IvoShandor 21:12, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

• Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (pp. 196-197).
• Forum thread: Can't be used as a source but has a ton of sources mentioned in the discussion.

Various murders and attacks

• Hollenbeck's Grove

• [1]

Other related articles

• United States Indian Agent (or U.S. Indian Agent or maybe Indian Agent (United States) (I am leaning toward the latter, any thoughts? Hit up the talk page here. Or create it, rather.
• Illinois Militia: This is going to essentially be the history of the Illinois National Guard up to the name change.

• Illinois Constitution: Article XII
• Illinois Military Museum: 2 articles on early militia in IL
• Ledger Sentinel: burning and looting of Peoria by militia, War of 1812
• 2006 executive order: Naval militia reauthorized in Illinois
• Dirksen article: 1940, contains some legislative history

• Michigan Territory Militia
• Items owned by Black Hawk

• Haha, no but seriously, I can find reliable sources on these. First I will list the names of the items and then the sources that refer to them in parenthesis.

• Medal, silk flag, British alliance and good behavior certificate. ([2])

Articles related to specific battles needing creating

Attack at Ament's Cabin

• Elijah Phillips
• User:IvoShandor/Black Hawk War/Elijah Phillips
• Sources

• Tampico Historical Society
• The Sauks and Black Hawk
• Memories of Shaubena
• History of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire
• History of Berlin Township: transcribed excerpt

• Meommuse
• Bureau Creek

Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1832)

• Hugh Brady (User page)

• History of Detroit: 1890 book
• History of the West Branch Valley: 1857 book
• Brady Heritage Association: maybe just include this one as an external link.
• Description of death: 1889 church history
• Role in the Black Hawk War: 2003 book, p. 156.

Battle of Apple River Fort

• Elizabeth Armstrong (settler): (user page) possibly as just a section of the Apple River Fort or Battle of article, unless I can find more information that isn't incidental.

• 1900 book: describes her as profane, also talks of confusion regarding identity.
• Women save the day
• 1859 reminisence of actions at Apple River

Attacks at Blue Mounds Fort

• Fort Blue Mounds: redirect Blue Mounds Fort to that page when you create it please.

• Sources

• "Term: Brigham, Ebenezer 1789 - 1861," Dictionary of Wisconsin History, Wisconsin State Historical Society. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
• Barton, Albert O. "Echoes of the Black Hawk War" Wisconsin Magazine Of History, Vol. 16 Issue 4 (1932-1933). Retrieved 14 August 2007.
• Birmingham, Robert. "Uncovering the Story of Fort Blue Mounds," Wisconsin Magazine of History, Spring 2003. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
• Dictionary Def.
• Rounding up its rich past
• Sauk and the Black Hawk War
• Wisc Hist Soc
• Wisc mag of History: p. 124

• Blue Mounds (Wisconsin)

• Sources

• History of Lafayette County]
• Madison and Dane Counties
• "Current Research," American Antiquity, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Jul., 1992), pp. 526-552

• Ebenezer Brigham

• Brief bio info

Indian Creek massacre

• Sylvia Hall
• Rachel Hall

• Someone has asserted, during a GA review, that Rachel and Sylvia don't meet WP:N. I didn't comment when they removed the links but these women have been written about in literally hundreds of secondary sources, I think they qualify for articles more than some of the garbage that gets past AfD. I guess since they aren't guitarists in some obscure Omaha rock band they don't count.

• Indian Creek (Fox River)

• Sources

• Kishwaukee River Watershed quality assessment: CTRL+F for "Indian."
• USGS info

History of DeKalb County

History of Lee County

Place Names of Illinois

History of Kendall County

• Keewasee

• Or Keewassee, appears as the former in current article.

• Jesse B. Brown

Battle of Stillman's Run

• David Bailey (militia officer)

• Ledger Sentinel: Talks about command
• Lived at Pekin: War of 1812
• COmmand and movements

Sinsinawa Mound raid

• Sinsinawa Mound: Currently a redirect to Sinsinawa Mound, Wisconsin

• Sources

• Portal Wisconsin: blog?
• Bit of info
• Sinsinawa Dominicans
• Discover Wisconsin
• USGS entry
• Wisconsin State Historical Society: 1923 article, Term origin, Dictionary description

Spafford Farm massacre

• Fort Hamilton (Wisconsin): Hamilton's Diggings; later renamed Wiota, Wisconsin

• infor
• Description of fort

General war related articles needing created

Writers etc.

• Frank Stevens: 1903 The Black Hawk War
• Perry A. Armstrong: 1887 The Sauks and the Black Hawk War
• Nehemiah Matson: 1872 Reminiscences of Bureau County : In Two Parts and 1878 Memories of Shaubena
• Kerry A. Trask: 2006 The Black Hawk War: The Battle for the Heart of America
• Antoine LeClair: translated the Autobiography of Black Hawk
• John A. Wakefield: soldier in war; wrote about the war two years later

People

• Alexander Posey: militia general
• Henry Gratiot

• U.S. Indian Agent (to the Ho-Chunk?) played a role in much of the war and its events.

• Thomas Forsyth (Indian Agent): preceded Felix St. Vrain
• Milton K. Alexander: militia general (user page)

• History of Edgar County, (transcript) bio

• Another transcript: same book

• Note on work after war
• About his house (historic marker text)
• Paris Art Center; official site
• Local profile from bank: secondary source, try to find better
• Gov. Ford's letter books, see footnote

• Joseph M. Street: Indian agent
• Menacou, Makatauaupuat, Pashetowat, and Kinnekonnesaut; four war captains serving with Black Hawk

Places

• Black Hawk's Tower: same as Black Hawk Bluff [3] or Black Hawk Lookout [4] ?

• Autobiography of Black Hawk

• Gratiot's Grove
• Keokuk's Reserve - Iowa
• Neutral Ground (Iowa) - [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12] [13], [14], [15], [16]

Abraham Lincoln

• Abraham Lincoln in the Black Hawk War (User page)

• The Blackhawk War's Influence on Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln Map
• Historic Diaries: Black Hawk War
• Captain Abraham Lincoln
• NIU's Lincoln
• Dixon Historical Marker
• Rock Island Historical Marker
• Lincoln Black Hawk timeline
• Type in "Lincoln"
• Lee County Fort Dixon
• Images of Sauk
• Date Lincoln
• Military History