Last Stand at Old Man’s Creek

   The true and correct story of the battle

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                      Stillman’s Run

                             of

           The Black Hawk War of 1832

A book by Author Gene Stevens; Publishing sometime in late 2008                                                   

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In the Spring of 1832, 275 Illinois Militiamen under the command of Major Isaiah Stillman would be sent on a mission to capture or destroy the Infamous Chief Black Hawk, and subdue the Warriors that followed him into Illinois to reclaim their homeland.

Stillman’s expediton would earn the title of the “Forlorn Hope”, as they found themselves up against superior numbers of Warriors, with the very real possibility of being completely wiped out.

Faced with this possibility, a small contigent of Rangers held their ground at Old Man’s Creek and covered the retreat of their fellow Rangers. Many lost their lives, But many others lived to tell the truth about what had really occurred on that day at Old Man’s Creek, on the 14th May of 1832.

Last Stand at Old Man’s Creek is the true and correct story of what occured on that day, and the aftermath of the battle that would smear the names of them men who were there. Last Stand at Old Man’s Creek finally answers the questions that have lingered on for nearly two centuries about the circumstances surrounding the surprising defeat of the militia at Old Man’s Creek on that fatal day.

                         

                    Coming late 2008 early 2009 from Publish America

On this day Nov 06th 1861;

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AS RECORDED

 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

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An Astounding Triumph of Republicanism.

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THE NORTH RISING IN INDIGNATION AT THE MENACES OF THE SOUTH

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Abraham Lincoln Probably Elected President by a Majority of the Entire Popular Vote

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Forty Thousand Majority for the Republican Ticket in New-York

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One Hundred Thousand Majority in Pennsylvania

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Seventy Thousand Majority in Massachusetts

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Corresponding Gains in the Western and North-Western States

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Preponderance of John Bell and Conservatism at the South

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Results of the Contest upon Congressional and Local Tickets

The canvass for the Presidency of the United States terminated last evening, in all the States of the Union, under the revised regulation of Congress, passed in 1845, and the result, by the vote of New-York, is placed beyond question at once. It elects ABRAHAM LINCOLN of Illinois, President, and HANNIBAL HAMLIN of Maine, Vice-President of the United States, for four years, from the 4th March next, directly by the People.

The election, so far as the City and State of New-York are concerned, will probably stand, hereafter as one of the most remarkable in the political contests of the country; marked, as it is, by far the heaviest popular vote ever cast in the City, and by the sweeping, and almost uniform, Republican majorities in the country.