And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lincoln documents discovered http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsnews/176nd2.htm Written descriptions of accidental shooting tied to Black Hawk War Saturday, July 17, 1999 SPRINGFIELD (AP) — The fact that only one man in Abraham Lincoln's militia command was wounded during the conflict with Sac and Fox Indians might make most folks say, "So what?" What's interesting to historians is the discovery of the former president's written description of how William Hohimer accidentally shot himself. The discovery was triggered by a Hohimer descendant who spotted Lincoln's signature on an old military document she was viewing at the National Archives in Washington. She mentioned the sighting to Kim Bauer, a historical research specialist with the Illinois State Historical Library, who asked a National Archives historian to retrieve the file. Lincoln's statement details how Hohimer's musket went off while he was setting up camp. He wrote that the shot entered one side of Hohimer's body and went out the other, leaving a wound that was "for some days afterward considered mortal." At the time, Lincoln was captain of a 67-man militia unit during the Black Hawk War. The report enabled Hohimer to get a government disability pension of $8 a month and a 40-acre tract of bounty land for his war service. With his curiosity piqued by the discovery, Bauer asked the National Archives to search further. Archivists found five more documents Lincoln wrote in support of bounty land for his men. Some of the papers were basic forms Lincoln filled out and signed, while others were reports entirely written out. Bauer said the latest find suggests scholars should work harder to sift through old records that in many cases have been undisturbed for years. Until now, he said, it's clear that "nobody ever looked in the muster roll of the men who served with Lincoln" in the Black Hawk War. © 1998 Associated Press — All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
