President Abraham Lincoln

Campaign Speech, Sept. 30, 1859

Candidate Abraham Lincoln delivered a campaign speech at the 1859 Wisconsin State Fair.

The Fair site, at that time, was at the Spring Street Hill/Brockway Grounds located in the heart of Milwaukee between Wisconsin Avenue ...

President Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Train

On this spot where the Wanatah Station of the Monon Railroad once stood, the Lincoln funeral train made a brief stop on the morning of May 1, 1865 at approximately 7:40 a.m. The funeral train traveled 1,700 miles of its ...

President - Elect Abraham Lincoln

In the Old State Capitol Nearby,

President-Elect Abraham Lincoln

used the Governor's Office as Headquarters

until he left for Washington.

Early in the Civil War,

Ulysses S. Grant

also served here as Special Military Aide

to Governor Yates.

During the War, Illinois coutributed

225,300 men,

about one-tenth of the Union's ...