Illinois - Civil War Information

It is situated at the junction of the Mississippi and Rock rivers. ) Products include military equipment, manufactured at the Rock Island Arsenal on an island in the Mississippi, and farm equipment.. Augustana College is in Rock Island. Many parks dot the ...

I brought up the point that most of the stories about Illinois have to do with the areas that are north of Springfield, specifically Chicago. To start, Southern Illinois is the "home" of two American icons. Two other historical points worth mentioning ...

History goes hand in hand with haunting. President Abraham Lincoln was also a frequent visitor to Galena, as were many Civil War generals and soldiers. I was there to purchase ?Ghosts of Galena?, a slim book of local haunting, both past and ...

Logan graduated in law from the University of Louisville (Kentucky) in 1851. He served as a Democratic congressman (1859-61) from Illinois, resigning his seat to join the Union Army as colonel of the 31st Illinois Infantry, which he had organized. In 1864 ...

Mississippi State University, oddly, becomes the new home of prized Ulysses Grant collectionMississippi might seem like an unlikely place to honor Ulysses S. Grant.After all, the Union general's military victory at Vicksburg helped turn the tide of the Civil War against the ...

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