Southern Illinois was greatly impacted by the Civil War that raged from 1861-65. This is a chapter in a series of reports on what happened 150 years ago at this time. Civil War Timeline will appear ...

There is also a link to "Boys in Blue," where one can search the database of more than 7,000 images of Illinois Civil War soldiers that are part of the holdings of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. There were no Civil War battles fought on Illinois soil. A few Kentucky rebels fired their rifles across the Ohio River at ...

For a guy known for giving us Memorial Day, Gen. John A. Logan is not much remembered in these parts. Sure, protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention famously climbed all over the statue ...

A central Illinois man recently made quite the discovery while working in his garden as he unearthed a Civil War bayonet that could be connected to former president Ulysses S. Grant. Bob Anderson, a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The document in ...