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He has presented a couple of times in Springfield at the old state ... Currently, there are 400 Illinois Civil War flags that are properly preserved at Camp Lincoln, he said.
Americans pay tribute to those who lost their lives serving their country, but how are flags supposed to be flown?
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — You may have noticed that Illinois flags are flying at ... out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War, and two years after President Abraham Lincoln ...
It was displayed at the state capitol in Springfield until 1922 and ... “This will be one of six Civil War flags now on display in Illinois,” Reed said. The 6-foot-6-inch by 6-foot-6-inch ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union's military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War is now among Illinois' prized papers of the 16th ...
The Pritzkers were scheduled to visit the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield ... “The horrible violence of the Civil War started with attacks on U.S. forces.