[123]. Wakefield, p. 21, is authority for the statement that Dr. Donaldson was surgeon of Stillman’s Battalion.
[124]. The shock to Mrs. Adams on learning of her husband’s horrible fate deprived her of reason, which was never recovered.
[125]. On June 14, 1902, the State of Illinois dedicated a monument costing $5,000 on the hill where Capt. Adams made his stand. The officers of the association to whom the credit of securing that monument is due are Lovejoy Johnson, Pt.; L. Dickerman, V. Pt.; John A. Atwood, Secy.; John A. White, Treas.; Wallace Revell, Trustee.
[126]. Reddick Horn.
[127]. 2d Sergeant Parker Adams, of Gideon Simpson’s Company.
[128]. Hist. Jo Daviess County, p. 284.
[129]. William Campbell was later made Major of the Twenty-seventh Regiment.
[130]. Vol. 1, p. 265, Smith’s Hist. of Wis.
[131]. The “talk” had at this meeting given in full note A, p. 416, Smith, Vol. I.
[132]. Iles’ Early Life and Times, p. 43. The author claimed the presence of Col. William S. Hamilton in his party, but in that he was mistaken, as Col. Hamilton returned to Galena with Strode.