When Carroll A Cardwell was born in 1832, in Irving, Montgomery, Illinois, United States, his father, Caleb West Cardwell, was 49 and his mother, Ruth Asbury, was 19. He married Lucy Annie Kelly on 24 January 1854, in Montgomery, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died in May 1860, in Montgomery, Illinois, United States, at the age of 28.
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"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
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English and Scottish: in northern England, the West Midlands, and southwest Scotland, this surname is a variant of Caldwell . In southwestern England it is probably a variant of Cardall, a habitational name from Cardwell in Milton Abbot (Devon). See also Cardell .
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