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Black Hawk War Message Board :: Battles of the Black Hawk War :: Sycamore Creek (Stillman's Run) :: New Book; Last Stand at Old Man's Creek Author Topic: New Book; Last Stand at Old Man's Creek (Read 78 times) majmchenry New Member member is offline Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18 New Book; Last Stand at Old Man's Creek « Thread Started on Jul 6, 2009, 12:31pm » Greetings, I am the author of Last Stand at Old Man's Creek. I just wanted to post this here so other who have interest in te Black Hawk War can purchase the book; Link to Last Stand site http://majmchenry.googlepages.com/oldmanscreek Purchase from Publish America http://www.publishamerica.com/shopping/shopdisplayproducts.asp?Search=Yes « Last Edit: Aug 9, 2009, 7:25pm by majmchenry » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Robert Braun Moderator member is offline < Aide toi et Dieu t'aidera. > Joined: Mar 2002 Gender: Male Posts: 1,373 Location: Fort Atkinson Re: New Book; Last Stand at Old Man's Creek « Reply #1 on Oct 13, 2009, 3:40am » Anyone interested on writing a review of this publication? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged "Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' ... If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom...crouch down and lick the hands, which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams majmchenry New Member member is offline Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18 Re: New Book; Last Stand at Old Man's Creek « Reply #2 on Nov 25, 2009, 5:49pm » Well being the author, it would be unfair of me to post an honest review. But what I will say is that it is not the first thing that Ive had published, but it is the first book and I would have done it differently and I learned a lot working with the publisher. I'm happy that I had the opportunity to set the record straight, on the down side, the publisher gave me a limited window to make corrections and that resulted in some typos which upset me, but the context remained in tact. My next step in the process was to approach the Adjudants Office of the Illinois National Guard in an attempt to properly recognize those who died there. The bottom line is that they were members of the Illinois Militia who were activated by the governor and under command of federal authority when they were attacked. Eugene C Stevens Author Last Stand at Old Man's Creek The True and Correct Story of The Battle of Stillman's Run « Last Edit: Nov 25, 2009, 5:51pm by majmchenry » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Larry Koschkee Full Member member is offline Joined: Mar 2002 Gender: Male Posts: 586 Re: New Book; Last Stand at Old Man's Creek « Reply #3 on Dec 1, 2009, 10:20am » Nov 25, 2009, 5:49pm, majmchenry wrote: . I'm happy that I had the opportunity to set the record straight, Eugene C Stevens Author Last Stand at Old Man's Creek The True and Correct Story of The Battle of Stillman's Run I read the book, but, briefly explain what record was set straight. Thank you and best regards, Larry Koschkee Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Larry W. Koschkee "We must turn away from white man councils and go down the Red Path of life to TAWAPAHA (victory)." - Big Walker, Hotcangara Nation, 1828 majmchenry New Member member is offline Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18 Re: New Book; Last Stand at Old Man's Creek « Reply #4 on Dec 1, 2009, 3:35pm » Dec 1, 2009, 10:20am, Larry Koschkee wrote: Nov 25, 2009, 5:49pm, majmchenry wrote: . I'm happy that I had the opportunity to set the record straight, Eugene C Stevens Author Last Stand at Old Man's Creek The True and Correct Story of The Battle of Stillman's Run I read the book, but, briefly explain what record was set straight. Thank you and best regards, Larry Koschkee In the book, I set out to dispell the popular myth that a wayward and intoxicated band of militiamen were routed by a small contigent of Sac indians who were actually trying to surrender. The facts do not support this poor theory, and the truth is that Stillman's command was acting under proper authority, had a line of communication with his own chain of command, being that of his commander (Whiteside), who in turned failed to properly support Stillman and his troops and wrongly laid the blame at Stillmans door step and smeared Stillmans name, as well as the reputation of the men under Stillmans command. I tried to show Stillman and his men for what they were, and not what for what they were perceived to be. The record shows very clearly that the failure for Stillman's defeat was not whiskey or even Stillman's lack of command. After all Stillman was with his men, Whiteside however was not with Stillman, and refused to move his troops even when directed to do so by higher authority. I said in the book and I will say it here, I find Whiteside's actions a severe failure of leadership and an act of cowardice. The other varibles were things such as lack of training and lack discipline. But clearly if Whiteside had deployed the situation would have been much different. In addition to this, I have read many accounts in which arbitrary numbers of indians who were present at the battle have been thrown out without any facts to support them, so I went through the record and looked at reports that were coming in from various sources, and that intelligence provided a much clearer picture of what was going on and the movements and actions of various indian tribes in the region and it appears that the numbers may have been far greater than popular myth portrays. 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