Lincoln's Last Visit / The Debaters in Mattoon

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Abraham Lincoln’s last visit to Cole County was indeed of a personal nature. Lincoln was described as he left Springfield by Henry C. Whitney, who accompanied him part of the way on the ...

Lincoln's Cavalry Guard

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In 1863, Ohio Governor David Tod believed that Lincoln needed a cavalry body-guard. Governor Tod requested one volunteer from each county in Ohio to serve on special duty. Guernsey County, in east-central Ohio supplied Ephraim Adamson, a ...

Lincoln's August 1856 Speech in Kalamazoo

1861 - 1865

This tablet is placed here by

Sarah E. Fuller - Tent No. 8

Daughters of Union Veterans

of the Civil War

Dept. of Michigan

in memory of

Orcutt Post No. 79

Kalamazoo, Dept. Of Mich.

Grand Army ...