eacher does a Ii
from 13
1 ter became American pre i
dent Greiffendorf e plained.
t 11, gagly young man
named Abraham Lincoln I d
the burial party. member
of th Illinoi militia at the
time, Lincoln arrived at the
ne y 15 and helped bury
the Idlers' multilated d
di membered bodies. Greiffen
dorf . d Zachary Taylor, Amen-
, 12th pre ident and Jeffer- .
n Davis, ho later became
the Pre ident of the Confeder
te State both vi ited th . e
ortly after the b ttle.
Greiffendorf . d tb Indian
e digging
attacked a regiment of 275
soldiers after one soldier cting
without order shot an Indian
carrying a white flag when he
rode into the camp with two
companion.
Bird Ellis died le than
month after he joined the militia
t the tender ge of 15. Yet"
round Stillman Valley his life
has become legend ry.
ccording to the legend,
Ellis fled from the Indian
on horseback and w shot.
He an old man from hi
hometown running and gave
him his horse. Wounded and
on foot, he taggered to ard
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Dick on' Ferry here 2000
fellow soldier were camped.
The Indians caught up to Ellis
one and a half mile from the
battlefield and killed him. The
next afternoon, when Lincoln
and the others arrived, they
found Ellis's body next to two
de d Indians and the care s
of a pony and a dog.
Greiffendorf h dug ite in
Columbi Township and
P ducah, entucky. He has
found artif cts dating back to
th early 19th century, left
by white settler. But he has
never found any Indian artifact .
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