Early in April, 1832, Brig. General Atkinson, with about three hundred troops, was ordered to Fort Armstrong to prevent a threatened war between the Menominee and Fox Indians, on account of a massacre, committed by a band of the latter on a small band of drunken Menominee the previous summer at a point near Fort Crawford. To prevent bloodshed he was directed to demand the murderers of the Foxes; but on arriving at Rock Island he soon learned that there was imminent danger of a war of a different character–that Black Hawk, with his entire band, was then on his way to invade the State of Illinois and would probably be joined by the Pottawatomie and Winnebago. In order to ascertain the facts in the case, he called upon the Indian Agent and Col. George Davenport, both located here, and requested them to furnish, in writing, all the information they had in relation to the movements and intentions of Black Hawk in coming to the State of Illinois.

Original name Black Sparrow
A Saukie Brave (Sauk)
1767 – 1838
1832
- Autobiography of Black Hawk or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak
- Blackhawk Indian War
- William Clark And The Black Hawk War (hosted at American History and Genealogy Project)
- Ogle County
- Sac and Fox Indians
Illinois
- Illinois Black Hawk War Veterans (hosted at State of Illinois)
- Illinois Military Units
- Adams County
- Alexander County
- Bond County
- Brown County
- Bureau County
- Cass County
- Clark County
- Clay County
- Clinton County
- Coles County
- Cook County
- Crawford County
- Edgar County
- Edwards County
- Fayette County
- Franklin County
- Fulton County
- Gallatin County
- Greene County
- Hamilton County (hosted at ILGenWeb Archives)
- Hancock County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Jo Davis County
- Knox County
- LaSalle County
- Lee County
- Macon County
- Macoupin County
- Madison County
- Marion County
- Marshall County
- McLean County
- Montgomery County
- Morgan County
- Peoria County
- Perry County
- Pike County
- Pope County (hosted at IlGenWeb Project or ILGenWeb Archives)
- Putnam County
- Randolph County
- Rock Island County
- Sangamon County
- Schuyler County
- Shelby County
- St. Clair County
- Tazewell County
- Union County
- Vermilion County
- Wabash County
- Wayne County
- White County
Iowa and Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Muster Rolls from the Black Hawk War, 1832 (hosted at Wisconsin Historical Society)
- The Black Hawk War (hosted at Iowa Pathways)
Wisconsin
- The Massacre at Bad Axe (hosted at Wisconsin Historical Society)