Good morning.
It’s a day of heavy thunderstorms ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of sixty-two degrees.
Whitewater’s Tech Park Board meets today at 10 a.m. The meeting agenda is available online.
Today, in 1832, brought new developments in the Black Hawk War:
On this date General Winfield Scott was ordered by President Andrew Jackson to take command at the frontier of the Black Hawk War.
Scott was to succeed General Henry Atkinson, thought to be unable to end the war quickly. General Scott moved rapidly to recruit troops and obtain equipment for his army. However, while in New York, the troops were exposed to an Asiatic cholera. Just outside of Buffalo, the first cases on the ships were reported and death often followed infection. By the time the ships reached Chicago, the number of soldiers had dropped dramatically from 800 to 150, due to disease and desertion. Rather than going on to the front, Scott remained with his troops in Chicago, giving Atkinson a brief reprieve. [Source: Along the Black Hawk Trail, by William F. Stark, p. 90-91]
Source: Wisconsin Historical Society.