Battle Ground Cemetery
Marion Township
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Ogle County Genealogical Society.
"Here on May 14, 1832 the first engagement of
the Black Hawk War took place,
when 275 Illinois Militiamen under Major Isaiah Stillman were
put to flight by Black Hawk and his warriors. So thoroughly demoralized
were the Volunteers, that a new army had to be called into the
field. The presence of the Soldiers, Statesman, Martyr, Abraham
Lincoln, assisting in the burial of the honored dead has made
this spot more sacred. A large monument erected by the Battle
Ground Memorial Association of Stillman Valley, with funds appropriated
by the Forty-second General Assembly of Illinois, approved May
11, 1901, in memory of the Illinois Volunteers, who fell at Stillman
Run, stands overlooking the nine burials at the cemetery."
when 275 Illinois Militiamen under Major Isaiah Stillman were put to flight by Black Hawk and his warriors. So thoroughly demoralized were the Volunteers, that a new army had to be called into the field. The presence of the Soldiers, Statesman, Martyr, Abraham Lincoln, assisting in the burial of the honored dead has made this spot more sacred. A large monument erected by the Battle Ground Memorial Association of Stillman Valley, with funds appropriated by the Forty-second General Assembly of Illinois, approved May 11, 1901, in memory of the Illinois Volunteers, who fell at Stillman Run, stands overlooking the nine burials at the cemetery."
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