Note 818 — Chapter XIV · WAR AND THE PLAGUE
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This occurred on Tuesday, May 20, 1832. Beggs states (op. cit., 101) that the Chicagoans brought the news of it to Plainfield on Wednesday evening. For an account of the massacre and the narrative of the captivity of the Hall girls, the only prisoners taken, see Stevens, op. cit., 146 ff.