Yeah, I remember the Rock River. The Illinois militia cavalry proceeded up the Rock to attack Blackhawk, leaving the militia Infantry and the Regulars behind at Armstrong's Tavern. The horse soldiers camped at Stillman's Run, and Blackhawk and some of his boys started to walk over to say hello. The cav's pickets saw Indians, fired in to the air, yelled, "Injuns!" and the whole bunch ran hell-for-leather back down Stillman's Run, to quiver behind the Infantry and the Regulars.

Blackhawk and his bunch were amused.

The Battle of Stillman's Run wasn't the grandest moment in the history of the Illinois Militia.

(I hasten to point out that one of those Infantry officers was a Lt. Abraham Lincoln.)