The Lawrence County Historical Society of Lawrenceville, IL “An Eagle on His Button: The Story of the African American Civil War Soldiers from Lawrence County, Illinois”. Some of our earliest settlers were free African Americans, coming to Lawrence County in the late 1790s. Discovering that nearly 35 local African American soldiers, residents and former residents, had served in the Civil War was a complete surprise --none of the enlistments of Lawrence County men were credited to Lawrence County
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