November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal About 30 students huddled around Herschel Stroud, otherwise known as Baltzer, a Union Civil War soldier. He sorted through his haversack filled with the supplies he took with him to war, displaying them to the King Elementary School students who gathered in the library. His wife, Jacqueline Stroud, who introduced herself as Amanda, stood off [...]
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November 18, 2009 | Posted by javal About 30 students huddled around Herschel Stroud, otherwise known as Baltzer, a Union Civil War soldier. He sorted through his haversack filled with the supplies he took with him to war, displaying them to the King Elementary School students who gathered in the library. His wife, Jacqueline Stroud, who introduced herself as Amanda, stood off [...]
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November 17, 2009 | Posted by javal “Most people drive by the statue in front of the Knox County Courthouse and don’t even know what it is,” said Galesburg Historical Society President Ron Peck.
The statue depicts a wounded soldier receiving care from a battlefield nurse. The inscription says “Mother Bickerdyke, 1861, Army Nurse, 1865, ‘She outranks me,’ General Sherman.”
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by javal The phrase “Thank God we have a government” is unlikely to turn up in any graffiti seen these days.
But things were different in 1861, and when Jonathan Dillon got the chance to scribble on someone else’s property, the phrase was included in his message.
That we know this, close to 150 years later, is due mainly [...]
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by javal Students at Hickory Creek Middle School in Frankfort got a rare glimpse of Civil War history and the life of Abraham Lincoln on Thursday.
Civil War buff Joseph Matheu, an Oak Lawn physician, showed students a portion of his extensive collection of Civil War and Lincoln artifacts. Besides an up-close look at the items, the students [...]
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November 13, 2009 | Posted by javal Robert Todd Lincoln gave the Library of Congress a treasure trove of papers belonging to his father, Abraham Lincoln, but stipulated they not be opened until 21 years after his death.
John Sellers, the Lincoln curator at the library, said the documents were finally opened in 1947 with a great deal of celebration — perhaps a [...]
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November 10, 2009 | Posted by javal Mayor A. George Pradel, the Naperville City Council and the Naperville Heritage Society invite the public to attend the rededication of the Civil War cannon at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 11 at Naperville’s Central Park, 104 E. Benton Ave.
Earlier this summer, the cannon was removed for cleaning and restoration as part of a larger project to [...]
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November 10, 2009 | Posted by javal The sixth annual Embarras Valley Film Festival, “Lincoln, the Civil War and Memory,” will honor Abraham Lincoln through presentations and filmic representations of Lincoln’s life and the Civil War.
A collaborative effort between the community and Eastern Illinois University, the film festival will be held Thursday through Saturday on campus and downtown. All events are free [...]
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November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal Two more Lincoln Wayside Exhibits will be dedicated next week in Jacksonville.
The exhibits will be the fourth and fifth of 10 Looking for Lincoln displays being dedicated in the city to show the connection between it and Abraham Lincoln.
There are 210 wayside exhibits in 50 communities in central Illinois.
The newest exhibits honor Richard Yates, the [...]
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November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal They raised money selling food at county fairs and stitching names into quilts for 10 cents. After several years of hard work, a post-Civil War auxiliary group finally raised the $3,000 needed to erect a statue in honor of fallen veterans.
One hundred years later, that monument still stands in the Woodstock Square.
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