User:IvoShandor/Black Hawk War

Welcome. You have found the user collaboration page for the Black Hawk War of 1832. However you got here please feel free to contribute to the discussion on the talk page and to the ongoing work on this collaboration page. You can contact User:IvoShandor or User:Kranar drogin if you have any questions about where you can help out or you can just start by taking a look at the content below. (Hint: the two templates to the right are pretty useful if you're looking for something to do.)

Consider nominating any new articles you create that are over 1,500 characters in length at Did You Know?. You can read over the rules and process of nominating an article there if you are not familiar with them, or just ask Ivo. Categories important to the collaboration include Category:Black Hawk War and its subcategories. The collaboration's main article is Black Hawk War. Watch for a work space link on the template to the right.

WikiProjects related to this collaboration include:


 * WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America
 * WikiProject Wisconsin
 * WikiProject Illinois
 * WikiProject Military history

These projects may be helpful resources for information and/or assistance.

Goals and tasks

 * Goals
 * 1) Create and expand articles relating to the Black Hawk War of 1832.
 * 2) Raise all battle, massacre, skirmish, ambush etc. articles affiliated with the war to GA class.
 * 3) Raise the article Black Hawk War to FA class.
 * 4) Raise the topic Black Hawk War (main article along with battle articles) to the status of Featured topic.


 * Tasks
 * Current
 * Create red linked articles in campaign box template.
 * Expand and reference currently existing articles related to the war.
 * Raise all battle articles to GA.
 * Raise Black Hawk War to FA.
 * Create red-linked "related articles" to at least "Start" class quality.


 * Most wanted articles


 * Feel like creating something, try these. Creating an article listed here would fill out red links in several war related articles. Some of these have references compiled on the creations needed page, where you will also find other red links to choose from.


 * Abraham Lincoln in the Black Hawk War: some sources are compiled here, you may need to weed out some unreliable ones. There is also a work page started, begin there.
 * Illinois Militia
 * Michigan Territory Militia
 * Fort Hamilton (Wisconsin)
 * Indian Creek (Illinois), some sources are compiled here.

Participants
If you are participating in the collaboration (even in small ways) feel free to list yourself in this section, in fact feel free to add to the page as you see fit. This list of participants will help facilitate communication.


 * 1) IvoShandor 20:09, 7 August 2007 (UTC): Main author, editor and sorter outer of historical discrepancies, photographer, (also disregarder of obviously exaggerated early history's claims)
 * 2) Kranar drogin 11:14, 8 August 2007 (UTC): Copyeditor, researcher, and rater of articles. I will work mostly on obscure villages, and people.
 * 3) Ruhrfisch  &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 12:25, 8 August 2007 (UTC) Maker of a map for the main article
 * 4) Rattis_irrittis User Talk =>> Rattis  13:58 16 August 2007 (UTC): Photographic on site research

Helpful people and places
This is a listing of projects and people who aren't listed above or in the intro to the page who have been vastly helpful to the collaboration. Just a little note of recoginition. : )


 * 1) WikiProject Ships: information assistance for Warrior (steamship)
 * 2) Stevenj: has provided continuing outside perspective on main article
 * 3) Cricketgirl: has been stunningly meticulous on-call copy editor for the collaboration. Please note, she does not openly accept copy editing requests.

Free use image sources

 * Greatest image library ever
 * Frank Stevens' 1903, The Black Hawk War
 * Wisconsin Historical Society: (Note: not all free use)

Black Hawk War

 * See the work space page for this article for further information about ongoing work.


 * Major issues
 * Not a single source.
 * Currently being worked on.


 * Sources
 * Chronology

Minor attacks of the Black Hawk War

 * Completed
 * 1) Article Written
 * 2) DYK nom

Attack at Ament's Cabin

 * Completed
 * 1) Created
 * 2) DYK nom
 * 3) Cricketgirl copy edit
 * 4) GA nom
 * 5) Failed GA

Battle of Apple River Fort

 * Completed
 * 1) Created
 * 2) Initial expansion
 * 3) Secondary expansion
 * 4) Nominated for GA
 * 5) Major revision/copy edit by outside editor.
 * 6) GA on hold, addressed issues
 * 7) GA passed.

Major issues

Sources
 * Historic marker
 * Apple River Fort State Historic Site
 * Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
 * IDNR Resource inventory-Driftless Region
 * Recommend pouring over the Wisconsin State Historical Society, has a lot of primary source material, first hand accounts, newspaper articles etc.
 * Recommend Black Hawk War site from Northern Illinois University libraries, again, a lot of primary source material.
 * NRHP Nomination Form


 * More sources-second expansion
 * Chronology of War
 * History of Jo Daviess County: same info; could use to diversify sources
 * Horse thievery before Waddams
 * Forts: what looks like an old listing in a book about forts
 * Black Hawk Autobiography
 * Stevens: 1903
 * Drake book:covers all battles and even some we haven't heard of yet
 * Like this, purportedly at Buffalo Grove: An attempt was made on the 24 of June, by a considerable body of warriors, to surprise the fort at Buffalo Grove, ou Rock Hiver, only about 1ÍÍ miles to the northward of Dixon's Ferry. It was guarded by 150 militia, who were prepared to meet them, and a considerably sharp contest ensued. Sixteen of the Indians were killed before they retreated. But few of the whites were wounded. The garrison was in great fear of being cut off, having expended all their ammunition before a reinforcement arrived, which had been sent for while the attack was going on. 

Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1832)

 * Completed
 * 1) Complete rewrite and referencing
 * 2) DYK nom and image added
 * 3) Secondary expansion/tweaks
 * 4) Nominated for GA
 * 5) Major revision/copy edit by outside editor
 * 6) Minor copy edits by GA reviewer
 * 7) Passed GA


 * Sources
 * Battle of Pecatonica from Black Hawk's Auto-bio
 * Peter Parkinson account
 * Brief mention on type of tribe
 * Battlefield: Then and now description
 * Lewis paper
 * Dodge account
 * Leading Events of Wisconsin History: 1898 book
 * History of Lafayette County: contains info about dead and dying, and their last moments

Attacks at Blue Mounds Fort

 * Completed
 * 1) Created
 * 2) Secondary expansion
 * 3) Minor expansion
 * 4) Pre GA tweaks and copy edit
 * 5) Nominated for GA
 * 6) GA on hold, addressed review concerns
 * 7) Passed GA


 * Sources
 * Wisc State Hist Soc Article 1
 * Info on Ebeneezer Brigham
 * Burnett memoir
 * Mag article WISc State Historic Soc

Buffalo Grove massacre

 * Completed
 * 1) Initial expansion from stub.
 * 2) Second expansion.
 * 3) Tweaks and copy edit prior to GAC.
 * 4) Nominated for GA.
 * 5) Passed GA.


 * Sources
 * History of Jo Daviess
 * Historical marker
 * Pic and description


 * Related articles
 * Buffalo Grove, Illinois (Ogle County)

Indian Creek massacre

 * Major issues
 * Copy edit.


 * Completed
 * 1) Initial referencing.
 * 2) Initial expansion.
 * 3) Finished referencing.
 * 4) Second expansion.
 * 5) Final tweaks prior to GAC.
 * 6) Nominated for GA.
 * 7) Passed GA.


 * Sources
 * DeKalb County Online description
 * Wisconsin Historical Society
 * Ledger-Sentinel article
 * Ledger-Sentinel article 2
 * IL Sec of State
 * Echoes of the Black Hawk War

Battle of Kellogg's Grove

 * Completed
 * 1) Created
 * 2) Initial expansion from stub
 * 3) Major tweaks prior to GA
 * 4) Nominated for GA
 * 5) Passed GA


 * Major issues


 * Sources
 * The Sauks and the Black Hawk War: 1887
 * Jacob Fry pic

Battle of Bad Axe

 * Completed
 * 1) Initial expansion
 * 2) Referencing
 * 3) Continuing expansion
 * 4) Two outside copy edits.
 * 5) Additions and tweaks by me per cedits.
 * 6) Nominated for GA.

Battle of Stillman's Run

 * Completed
 * 1) Initial referencing
 * 2) Expansion
 * 3) Copy edit and lead expansion
 * 4) Major issue resolved
 * 5) Nominated for GA
 * 6) Well illustrated


 * Sources
 * Lewis paper
 * WI State Hist. Soc.
 * I have offline copies of the following articles
 * Hagan, William T. "General Henry Atkinson and the Militia," Military Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 4. (Winter, 1959-1960), pp. 194-197.
 * Dyar, Scott D. "Stillman's Run: Militia's Foulest Hour," Military History, March 2006, pp. 38-44, 72.
 * Lincoln at Stillman's Run (Sources)
 * Morse book (1896)
 * [Old Lead Hist. Soc.: leaves open possiblity that it didn't happen.
 * Tarbell (1900): Kellogg's Grove
 * Sandburg, p. 37, Kellogg's Grove
 * Kellogg's Grove NRHP form: Kellogg's Grove
 * Davis-Lincoln's Men (1999): Kellogg's Grove, p. 12

Battle of Waddams Grove

 * Completed
 * 1) Created
 * 2) Initial expansion and DYK nom.
 * 3) Final tweaks prior to GA.
 * 4) Nominated for GA.
 * 5) Passed GA


 * Sources
 * Captain Stephenson's Fight, geocities but it is from the Old Lead Historical Society.
 * Early Illinois Railroads, short histories on many settlements in Illinois.

Battle of Wisconsin Heights

 * Completed
 * 1) Initial expansion from stub
 * 2) Clarifications and expansions prior to GA.
 * 3) Nominated for GA. Put on hold.
 * 4) Work on GA Review, only a copy edit for grammar/flow left.
 * 5) Copy edit from LOCE
 * 6) Passed GA


 * Sources
 * Personal account of battle
 * Henry Dodge account
 * Black Hawk account
 * Milwaukee Journal article
 * Casualty info
 * Magazine article
 * 175th anniversary
 * Old Military Road: route taken by pursuing troops after the battle
 * Wisconsin in 3 Centuries, pp. 200-201

Plum River raid

 * Completed
 * 1) Initial research
 * 2) Created
 * 3) DYK nom
 * 4) Minor tweaks/expansion of Background
 * 5) Copy edit requested
 * 6) Request remains unfulfilled, GA nomination
 * 7) Outside copy edit complete
 * 8) Passed GA


 * Sources
 * Old Lead Historical Society
 * Taylor letter with mention of attack
 * Howe book mentions attack
 * Plum River Falls historic marker
 * Drake book mentions attack
 * Trask, pp. 197-198. (This book calls it the Plum River raid).

Sinsinawa Mound raid

 * Completed
 * 1) Creation
 * 2) DYK nom
 * 3) Secondary work, needs expansion, more sources
 * 4) Continued secondary work, relatively major expansion
 * 5) Copy edit requested
 * 6) Request remains unfulfilled, GA nomination
 * 7) Two outside copy edits
 * 8) Passed GA


 * Sources
 * Collections of WI st Hist Soc
 * Chornology of War
 * Wisc Magazine of History
 * Trask, p. 223.
 * More sources- Second expansion
 * 1932 article
 * Mention of Jones' lead operation
 * Jones speech

Spafford Farm massacre

 * Completed
 * 1) Initial expansion from stub
 * 2) Minor secondary expansion
 * 3) Continued secondary expansion
 * 4) Pre GA tweaks and copy edit
 * 5) Nominated for GA
 * 6) Passed GA


 * Sources
 * History of Lafayette County, Wisconsin
 * Description of events after
 * History of the Black Hawk War
 * Stevens' The Black Hawk War
 * Trask, pp. 230-231.

St. Vrain massacre

 * Completed
 * 1) Initial expansion from stub
 * 2) Subsequent expansion
 * 3) Major tweaks prior to GA
 * 4) GA nomination
 * 5) GA Pass


 * Major issues
 * The Little Bear incident described in several older histories may or may not have happened.
 * Issue resolved.


 * Sources
 * Taylor reaction letter
 * Description of St. Vrain killing
 * Short Bio: Felix St. Vrain

Other stuff

 * A larger template for a possible FT beyond just the engagements
 * Our award