Last Stand at Old Man’s Creek

   The true and correct story of the battle

                             of

                      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

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