Taken from 80th Anniversary edition of the Woodstock Sentinel, 1937.
Page 7.
"There was a general illumination Monday evening in honor of Lee's surrender. The square presented a lively and animated appearance...."
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"The remnants of the 15th Illinois (many from McHenry County), so long confined in rebel prisons, had been confined in rebel prisons had been paroled and were in Vicksburg awaiting transportation home. The men who had escaped with Hanaford and Lascelle were recaptured and one of them wounded."
Hopefully none of them were on the Sultana.
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The 15th Illinois suffered big casualties at the Battle of Shiloh, including the death of Captain Harley Wayne who I have written a lot about.
--Old Secesh
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