VOLUME NUMBER 19 ISSUE NUMBER 10
1997
2017
APRIL 11, 2017
PRESENTATION AND
GENERAL MEETING
AT THE
WOODSTOCK PUBLIC
LIBRARY
414 WEST JUDD STREET
WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS
TUESDAY
APRIL 11, 2017
7:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M.
DISCUSSION GROUP
CELEBRATES
SERVING THE COMMUNITY
AND MCHENRY COUNTY.
FOUNDED AT
UNION, MCHENRY COUNTY,
ILLINOIS
ON
AT THE
PANERA BREAD
COMPANY
6000 NORTHWEST
HIGHWAY
CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS
SATURDAY
APRIL 22, 2017
10 A.M. TO NOON
By Dave Powell
THE TULLAHOMA CAMPAIGN
(Or the Middle Tennessee Campaign)
Conducted from June 24 to July 3,1863,
by the Union Army of the Cumberland under
Major General William Rosecrans, and the
Confederate Army of Tennessee General
Braxton Bragg, was regarded as one of the
most brilliant maneuvers of the American Civil
War. It’s effect was to drive the Confederates
out of Middle Tennessee and to threaten the
strategic city of Chattanooga.
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FROM GEORGIA’S BLUE AND GRAY TRAIL
PRESENTS AMERICA’S CIVIL WAR
APRIL 1: BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS
APRIL 24: PRESIDENT JOHNSON
REJECTS SHERMAN’S NEGOTIATED
SURRENDER TERMS WITH
CONFEDERATE FORCES.
APRIL 26: P.G.T. BEAUREGARD
SURRENDERS TO FEDERAL TROOPS IN
NORTH CAROLINA.
APRIL 2: BATTLE OF FORT BLAKELY
APRIL 2: CONFEDERATE
GOVERNMENT EVACUATES
RICHMOND.
APRIL 2: BATTLE OF SELMA.
APRIL 3: FEDERAL TROOPS OCCUPY
PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND
APRIL 4: PRESIDENT LINCOLN VISITS
OCCUPIED RICHMOND
APRIL 4: BATTLE OF JETTERSVILLE
APRIL 26: JOE JOHNSTON
SURRENDERS TO WILLIAM T. SHERMAN
UNDER RE-NEGOTIATED TERMS.
APRIL 26: ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S
ASSASSIN JOHN WILKES BOOTH IS
SHOT IN A BURNING TOBACCO SHED
WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE.
APRIL 27: AN EXTRAORDINARILY OVER
LOADED STEAM BOAT THE SULTANA
BLOWS UP WHILE CARYING EXPRISONERS OF WAR TO ANNAPOLIS.
MARKING THE WORST MARTIME
SHIPPING DISASTER IN AMERICAN
HISTORY.
APRIL 6: BATTLE OF SAYLER’S CREEK
(SAILOR’S CREEK)
APRIL 29: COMMERCIAL SHIPPING
BANDS ARE LIFTED FROM MOST
SOUTHERN PORTS.
APRIL 7: GRANT BEGINS
COMMUNICATIONS WITH LEE TO
NEGOTIATE A SURRENDER.
“SURRENDER LETTERS”
________________
APRIL 8: BATTLE OF APPOMATTOX
STATION
APRIL 9: LEE SURRENDERS TO GRANT
AT APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE
APRIL 11: CONFEDERATE
GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS TO
SOUTH CAROLINA
APRIL 14: PRESIDENT ABRAHAM
LINCOLN ASSASINATED AT FORD’S
THEATRE IN WASHINGTON D.C. BY
ACTOR AND SOTHERN SYMPATHIZER
JOHN WILKES BOOTH.
APRIL 15: PRESIDENT LINCOLN NOW
“BELONGS TO THE AGES”.
ANDREW JOHNSON BECOMES THE
TH
17 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES.
APRIL 18: SHERMAN NEGOTIATES
TERMS OF SURRENDER WITH
JOHNSTON AND ALL REMAINDING
CONFEDERATE FORCES.
APRIL 19: PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S
FUNERAL IS HELD IN WASHINGTON.
By Ed Urban
Mr. Ed Urban was kind enough to start off our
2017 Presentation Season with his story of the
Soldiers from McHenry County who served in
the American Civil War..
Like many other communities across the United
States the cities and villages of McHenry County
responded to the crisis that was put in motion by
the fall of Ft. Sumter with a patriotic fervor.
Meetings were organized in almost every
community to address the crisis and to form
military companies for the defense of the
country. By the end of April enough men
enlisted; primarily from Algonquin, Marengo –
Union area, and Woodstock to form three
companies to be offered to Uncle Sam.
Initially these men served the state of Illinois
under the authority of the Ten Regiment Act
which provided that one regiment be formed in
each of the state’s nine Congressional Districts,
and one regiment be formed in the state atlarge. The companies that were organized in
McHenry County were ordered into training
camp in Freeport, Illinois, on May 11, 1861, and
represented 30% of the 15th Illinois Infantry
Regiment. On May 24, 1861, the 15th Illinois was
officially accepted into federal service.
Soon this regiment headed south towards the
war zone, and this was the beginning of
McHenry County’s role in the American Civil
War.
Another prominent regiment from McHenry
County was the 95th Illinois. Seventy percent
of this regiment was composed of McHenry
County soldiers. Other regiments that the
state of Illinois has given McHenry County
credit for in its 1962 publication; Illinois Military
Units in the Civil War were the 36th Illinois,
153rd Illinois, 8th Illinois Cavalry, and the
17th Illinois Cavalry. Additionally the county
contributed to at least sixteen other regiments
in lesser numbers.
McHenry County provided 2,533 men to
suppress the rebellion – over 10% of the
county’s 1860 population served.
McHenry County men participated in the
following battles, campaigns, and sieges;
Shiloh, Vicksburg, Meridian Expedition, Davis
Bridge, Red River Campaign, Peninsula
Campaign, Gettysburg, Brandy Station,
Franklin, Chickamauga, Pea Ridge, Perryville,
Arkansas Post, Chickasaw Bayou,
Murphysboro, Bentonville, Ft. Donaldson, and
the Atlanta Campaign
.
Ed Urban
_____________________
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
Nine people died on this day in 1864
when fighting broke out in Charleston,
Illinois, between Union soldiers and
Confrderate-sympathizing
"copperheads."
The riot has been called the only Civil
War battle fought in Illinois.
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FRIDAY
APRIL 21, 2017
KENOSHA CIVIL WAR
MUSEUM
SECOND FRIDAY LECTURE
SERIES
FRIDAY APRIL 7, 2017
BEGINS AT NOON
ANNOUNCEMENTS
AND EVENTS
KANKAKEE VALLEY CWRT
By Diane Smith
By Dave Powell
WEDNESDAY
APRIL 5, 2017
SALT CREEK CWRT
FRIDAY
APRIL 21, 2017
FRIDAY APRIL 28,2017
6PM TO 9PM
By Phil Angelo
AND THE
NORTHERN ILLINOIS
CWRT
By Stephen Alban
FRIDAY
APRIL 7, 2017
By Steve Fratt
SATURDAY
APRIL 29, 2017
BEGINNING AT 8:30AM
DUPAGE COUNTY
FAIRGROUNDS
AT
SATURDAY
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APRIL 22, 2017
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LAKE COUNTY CWRT
MONDAY – SATURDAY 10AM – 5PM SUNDAY
NOON TO 5PM
THURSDAY
APRIL 13, 2017
By Dave Noe
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THURSDAY
APRIL 27, 2017
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