Lincoln really did sleep here

Janesville Gazette

...During the 1832 Black Hawk War, Lincoln served in the Illinois State Militia as part of General Henry Atkinson's army.

On July 1, Lincoln camped in present-day Beloit at an Indian village called Turtle Village. Historians even know what he ate: dove soup.

The next morning, the troops passed through Janesville, stopping at a site now in Blackhawk Golf Course. The spot today is memorialized by a marker.

The troops camped at Storrs Lake on July 2. They searched for Black Hawk in the Lake Koshkonong area for the next three days. From July 6 through 9, Lincoln was north of Whitewater in Cold Springs near an old Indian village called Burnt Village. The army came together there. The group included Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States; Henry Dodge, the first territorial governor of Wisconsin; and Albert Sidney Johnston, who would become the second-ranking general in the Confederate Army.