Members of the 19th Illinois Regiment, from  The Nineteenth Illinois: a Memoir of a Regiment of Volunteer Infantry Famous in the Civil War, ...

Asiel Z. Blodgett (1832-1916) of Waukegan understood the importance of being a good leader. During the Civil War, he served as the main re...

This handsome portrait of Levi H. Mead, from the collections of the Bess Bower Dunn Museum, prompted me to research his life in Newport Tow...

For Lake County's 96th Illinois Infantry, Chickamauga was "A battle of tremendous proportions and fraught with mighty import."...

During the Civil War in October 1862, the 96th Illinois Infantry was in northern Kentucky. There, they were approached by two Confederate de...