Notable Leaders From Illinois
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Pres.
Abraham Lincoln -
Lt. Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Maj. Gen.
John Buford -
Maj. Gen.
John Pope -
Maj. Gen.
John M. Schofield -
Maj. Gen.
John A. Logan -
Maj. Gen.
John A. McClernand -
Gov.
Richard Yates -
Brig. Gen.
Elon J. Farnsworth -
Sen.
Orville H. Browning -
Maj. Gen.
Benjamin Grierson -
Maj. Gen.
Benjamin Prentiss -
Maj. Gen.
Richard J. Oglesby -
Brig. Gen.
W.H.L. Wallace
Among the many Illinois generals who rose to post-war prominence were Green B. Raum (who became a U.S. congressman and the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service) and James L. Alcorn, who was a U.S. Senator and the Governor of Mississippi. Both were born near Golconda. Galena-born John Aaron Rawlins, long a confidant of U.S. Grant, became the United States Secretary of War in the Grant Administration. John M. Palmer, a resident of Carlinville, was a postbellum Governor of Illinois and the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party in the 1896 election.
Edward S. Salomon, an immigrant from Europe, was appointed by President Grant as the Governor of the Washington Territory. William P. Carlin of Carrollton became a general in the postbellum U.S. Army and commanded several outposts in Montana and elsewhere.
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