Civil War

Simon Malone fled his native Mississippi and settled in Normal during the Civil War, and later fought for the Union Army that helped him flee as a fugitive slave.

Most people in Bloomington-Normal know David Davis as the campaign manager for Abe Lincoln. Most know him as the guy who had a big mansion built on the…

Andrew Jackson Smith was born a slave in Kentucky in 1842, the probable son of a slave holder. He escaped to the Union Army, became the servant of an…