Illinois Civil War 150th Anniversary


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Learn more about one of America's most beloved presidents. Read More...	How the Civil War Transformed a Rural Town in Illinois Tue, May 14, 7:30pm - 9:00pm Woodstock Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock, IL Civil War Days Sat - Sun, May 18-19, 10am - 4pm Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St., Naperville Meet a Boy in Blue: The Civil War on the High Seas Sat, May 25, 11am - 4pm Old State Capitol State Historic Site, 6th & Adams, Springfield, IL If you have an event you would like to see added to the calendar of events, please fill out this form.

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Some early black troops from Illinois

On May 25, 1863, a group of fifteen to twenty African American men gathered at a railroad platform in Springfield to begin a journey east to Massachusetts. There they would be mustered into the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Union's earliest black military units. The men were some of the first of many black troops from Illinois that would fight in our Civil War.