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The oldest such group in the United States is The Civil War Round Table of Chicago, which was founded in 1941 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. The second and perhaps third oldest are the Civil War Round Table of Milwaukee (founded in 1947) and the Civil War Round Table of Atlanta (founded in 1949).
Ralph Geoffrey Newman (3 November 1911 – 23 July 1998) was an American writer and well known Abraham Lincoln scholar. He owned the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, and hosted a monthly gathering known as the Civil War Round Table. [1]
Greene received the 2011 Nevins-Freeman Award from the Chicago Civil War Round Table. The Nevins-Freeman Award was established in 1974 to recognize special individuals for their outstanding American Civil War scholarship. The award includes a substantial financial contribution to a historical preservation project selected by the recipient. [4] [13]
Black Jack: John A. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War Era. SIU Press. p. 91ff. Jordan, Brian Matthew. Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War (WW Norton & Company, 2015) Karamanski, Theodore J., Rally 'Round the Flag: Chicago and the Civil War. Nelson-Hall, 1993. ISBN 0-8304-1295-6.
The Ulysses S. Grant Monument is a presidential memorial in Chicago, honoring American Civil War general and 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.Located in Lincoln Park, the statue was commissioned shortly after the president's death in 1885 and was completed in 1891.
American Revolutionary War: US Victory 0 United States vs Great Britain: Battle of St. Louis: May 25, 1780 Present-day Cahokia, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri: Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish/US Victory 25+ United States and Spain vs Great Britain and Indian Nations: Battle of Fort Dearborn: August 15, 1812 Present-day Chicago, Illinois: War of 1812
Expectations for massive protests in Chicago — which came a month after the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee — were high. Despite smaller crowds, activists at Democrats' convention ...
Joseph Humphries Barquet (September 10, 1823 - March 14, 1880) was a Union soldier in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and a civil rights activist. Born in a wealthy family in Charleston of mixed European and African descent, he lived most of his life in Illinois as a mason.