Rejecting a treaty, Black Hawk, a leader of the Sauk and Fox, led his hungry people back into Illinois from Iowa in early 1832, intending to plant corn and hoping to form an alliance with the Winnebago and Pottawatomie. Alarmed, Gov. John Reynolds called for volunteers, and Lincoln was elected captain of his company in the 31st Regiment of Illinois Militia, an honor he later recalled with great pleasure. Lincoln and his men arrived in Beardstown from New Salem on April 22, where he tried to instill discipline in his rowdy company but never mastered more complicated commands, as shown in a story in which he halted, dismissed, and then reassembled his men on the other side of a fence when he could not remember the order to pass them through a gate two-by-two. The soldiers broke camp on April 29 and headed north. As captain of the Illinois Militia Volunteers, Lincoln was responsible for discipline and for drawing supplies, including thirty muskets and thirty bayonets for his men. Quartermaster records show that he returned 26 muskets and many fewer bayonets, but no records exist of efforts to hold him accountable for the discrepancy. The conflict grew from the 1805 cession of fifty million acres in northwestern Illinois by the Sauk and Fox for a $1,000 annuity, the tribes' forced removal to Iowa, Black Hawk's belief that land could not be sold, his 1831 return to plant corn, and the failure of the winter hunt of 1831-32 and of the Iowa prairie to support planting, which led the sixty-five-year-old Black Hawk to bring 450 warriors and 1,500 women and children back into Illinois at Yellow Banks in early 1832, igniting the Black Hawk War.