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The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-Ninth US Colored Infantry (Univ of South Carolina Press, 2021). Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago: Volume II: From Town to City 1848–1871 (1937) Swan, James B. Chicago's Irish Legion: The 90th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009)
Missouri was initially settled predominantly by Southerners traveling up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Many brought slaves with them. Missouri entered the Union in 1821 as a slave state following the Missouri Compromise of 1820, in which Congress agreed that slavery would be illegal in all territory north of 36°30' latitude, except Missouri.
List of Illinois Civil War Units; Illinois in the American Civil War 'History of the 36th Regiment Illinois Volunteers, During the War of the Rebellion', Bennett, L.G. and Haigh, Wm. M., Knickerbocker and Hodder, Aurora, Ill, 1876, written by members of the 36th, elected as Regimental historians [5] Company B of the 36th Illinois Regiment of ...
77th Regiment Illinois was organized at Peoria, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 3, 1862.. Serving under Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, the 77th Illinois Volunteers participated in the bloody initial phase of the Vicksburg Campaign, during which several days of futile Union attacks were launched before a protracted siege was made and won. [3]
The organization of this regiment was commenced as soon as the news of the firing on Fort Sumter reached Chicago. General T. O. Osborn was one of its contemplated field officers, and labored zealously to get it accepted under the first call for troops, but did not accomplish his object. The state having filled its qu
The Confederate "Battle Flag", numbering 12 and 13 stars for Missouri and Kentucky. As the Civil War began, many leading citizens were hoping the state could remain neutral in the growing conflict. These hopes were encompassed in the so-called Price–Harney Truce of May 21, 1861. Implementation of the truce fell prey, however, to the growing ...
Illinois state flag. Active: May 24, 1861, to July 8, 1865 ... The regiment suffered 3 officers and 54 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their ...
Her original design incorporated Missouri's coat of arms and was rendered as a painted paper flag by her friend Mary Kochitzky. [5] The flag was brought to the Missouri State Capitol in 1908 and bills to adopt the flag as the official flag of Missouri were introduced by Senator Arthur L. Oliver, her nephew, in 1909 and 1911. Both bills failed ...