In April 1832, the last major war in Illinois was fought between Native and European Americans after a Sauk-Fox Indian popularly known as Black Hawk, with a band of followers, sought to reoccupy their village of Saukenuk at the confluence of the Mississippi and Rock rivers. Illinois Governor called for volunteers to suppress the uprising, and twenty-three-year-old Abraham Lincoln enlisted, serving fifty-one days and initially being elected captain of his company before not being re-elected because he could not control men who frequently drank whiskey. Lincoln later mocked this as his only military experience, saying he had made "charges upon the wild onions" and had "bloody struggles" with mosquitoes but never saw a "live, fighting Indian." For the Sauk-Fox Tribe, the war ended far more tragically, as most of the four hundred who followed Black Hawk were killed in Wisconsin while trying to escape across the Mississippi River. Makataimeshekiakiak, or "Black Sparrow Hawk," was known to European-Americans as Black Hawk; born around 1767 in Saukenuk, he supported the British during the War of 1812, was commonly called "Chief" despite holding no official tribal position, inspired many warriors through natural leadership, later toured the eastern United States and dictated his autobiography, and died in Iowa in 1838. During the war, Kellogg Trail, the major wagon route between Galena and Peoria, passed through the wooded area called Kellogg's Grove, where Illinois militia cabins storing supplies made the site a point of conflict. On June 24, 1832, Black Hawk's men unsuccessfully attacked Apple River Fort in the nearby settlement of Elizabeth and then turned toward Kellogg's Grove. The last action of the war fought on Illinois soil came on June 25, 1832, when more than two hundred militiamen defended Kellogg's Grove from an attack by a party of Indians, with several men lost on both sides; local tradition holds that Lincoln helped bury the militiamen, while the Sauk-Fox Indians were buried where they fell.