ILLINOIS HISTORY

A MAGAZINE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Volume 52 • Number 2 • February 1999

CONTENTS

21 "I Shall Feel Ever Grateful": General Grant and Congressman Washburne Anna Carlson Heritage School, Rockford 23 David Davis and Abraham Lincoln's First Presidential Campaign Michelle Chrul South Middle School, Arlington Heights 24 Lyman Trumbull Jenna Bishop Carbondale Community High School, Carbondale 25 Ulysses S. Grant Alexis Stack Chapman Junior High School, Farmington 27 Stephen Douglas and the Slavery Issue Brad Andersen Oregon High School, Oregon 28 Ulysses S. Grant: The Accidental General Evan J. Cording University High School, Urbana 30 Lyman Trumbull: From Belleville into History Lacey M. Diesel Belleville Township High School West, Belleville 32 Stephen Douglas and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Abi Mogge Oregon High School, Oregon 34 Binding the Nation with "Bands of Steel" Paige E. Wassel Robinson High School, Robinson 36 Reconstruction and Corruption in the Grant Administration Jennifer Collins Macomb Junior High School, Macomb On the cover: The four men pictured here (left to right, top to bottom), Ulysses S. Grant, Lyman Trumbull, David Davis, and Stephen A. Douglas, all served the country contemporaneously with Abraham Lincoln.

37 Brigadier General Grant Ryan Lindsey Good Shepherd Lutheran School, Collinsville 38 Ulysses S. Grant: Two Images of the Man Tara Dillon-Sumner Unity Point School, Carbondale 39 The First Lincoln-Douglas Debate Pam Venable Booth Elementary School, Enfield 40 David Davis Heather Bohn Bent School, Bloomington Illinois Historic Preservation Agency Julie Cellini, Trustee, Chair Pamela A. Daniels, Trustee Edward M. Genson, Trustee Samuel Lilly, Trustee Carol Stein, Trustee Warren Swanson, Trustee Susan Mogerman, Director Maynard Crossland, Division Manager Public Affairs and Development Illinois History Keith A. Sculle, Editor Cynthia A. Fuener, Design Toni Clark. Editorial Assistant Illinois History (ISSN 0019-2058) is published three times during the school year, December, February, and April, by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Printed by authority of the State of Illinois. Articles may be reprinted with credit. Subscription rates: One copy is sent free on request to all schools in Illinois. Additional school-use subscriptions are $1 per volume (three issues). All other subscriptions are $6 per volume. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Illinois History, Old State Capitol, Springfield, Illinois 62701.

All photos unless otherwise credited are courtesy Illinois State Historical Library, Mary Michals, Iconographer.

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