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The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that following the Battle of Waddams Grove members of the Illinois militia returned to Galena with the scalps of two Sauk warriors?

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After some minor tweaks to the language, I think that this article satisfies the GAC. It is stable, NPOV and NOR and has appropriate pictures. It is written with correct prose and ref formatting and MOS. Again the article is not that long, but the topic is rather obscure - a skirmish involving 12 white settlers and a group of American Indians. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:24, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Location of this battle was not Waddams Grove

Early descriptions of the battle note it was in "Prairie Grove", not Waddams Grove. The battle appears to have been in Waddams Township, a few miles northeast of Waddams Grove. "Sauk and the Black Hawk War" - Perry Armstrong 1887 notes that the battle was four miles northeast of Lena. This puts the location nearer present day McConnell, IL. "Black Hawk War Relic." from Galena Daily Gazette 22OCT1900, also notes the location of the battle was four miles northeast of Lena. It also describes the battle as occuring as the indians were heading to ford the Pecatonica river near McConnell. "In Black Hawk Times, An Interesting Talk with Mrs. William Lawhorn", original source not verified, but is found in Geneology Trails (http://genealogytrails.com/ill/jodaviess/blackhawk.html). From that reference, "Co. Stephenson’s men set out to overtake the Indians, which they did at a point three miles north of Lena, near the Sisson farm. At their approach the Indians took the timber and protected themselves behind trees and logs." The Sisson Farm was located northeast of Lena in Waddams Township, Section 24. "History of Stephenson County" 1910 by Addison Fulwider, "The remains of the soldiers who were killed in Captain Stephenson’ s battle at Prairie Grove between Lena and McConnell, we re taken up and interred with the bodies of the men who fell about Kellog’s Grove. The committee and Mr. J. B. Timms, accompanied by W. H. Crotzer, Geo. Roush, S. J . Dodds, Ed. Shoesmith, A. Jone s, Wm. Dively and sons, C. Shippy and Levi Robey, found the bodies of the three men, about eighteen inches underground." OF note is that Wm. Dively, C. Shippy and Levi Robey are all from the McConnell area.

With this information I would conclude that the battle was fought in a thick timbered ravine between Lena and McConnell, between current highway 73 and Flansburg Rd, near Manny and Unity Roads. 198.62.161.232 (talk) 19:49, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]