Nope, not a baseball team.
For most communities, having one person reaching the rank of general during wartime is something to be proud of. However, a city in the northwestern corner of Illinois, Galena, had not just one (and, he was then biggest of all generals) but nine.
Here is a list of the nine in case you were wondering who they might be from the last post:
Augustus Louis Chetlain
John Oliver Duer
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Jasper Adalmorn Maltby
Ely Samuel Parker
John Aaron Rawlins
William Rueben Rowley
John Corson Smith
John Eugene Smith
Grant? Who? --Old Secesh
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