“I am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
“I. Stillman,
“Brig.-Gen. 5 Brig., Ill. Mil. and Act. Maj. N. Ill. Vol.
“In Camp, 19 June, 1832”
It cannot be said of this explanation that it offers any extenuating circumstances for that inglorious retreat or that abandonment by Stillman’s men of gallant Captain Adams and his men to fight it out alone and die.[[125]]
WILLIAM McCULLOUGH.
JAMES K. ORENDORF.