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GUEST,daylia BS: Tucumseh vs Bush? (67* d) RE: BS: Tucumseh vs Bush? 26 Aug 05

PS   Found this interesting little verse yesterday, sung when they dedicated the memorial at the site of Stillman's Run a few decades after the 'Battle':

"Dr. W. D. McAffee of Rockford, a veteran of the Civil War, sang in an impressive manner that inspiring song "Illinois" with the following stanza written for the occasion:

In this mound thy sons are sleeping,--Illinois, Illinois.
What they sowed we now are reaping,--Illinois, Illinois.
Dying for the dear home land,
May this shaft long ages stand,
Telling of that noble band, Illinois"

"What they sowed we now are reaping" ... hmmm. Eventually, we'll be able to distinguish the wheat from the chaff. I hope!

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