Mayor in 1861
when the war started Civil
War Was
WILLIAM WILLARD WILLIAM WILLARD ON FIRST DAY HE RALLIED
Peorians downtown Young men eager to
sign up
Went out to Birkett Hollow west gate of Glen Oak Park and built Camp LYON named after a colonel that was killed very
early in the war…Nathaniel Lyon Initial
training of 7,500 emn there before they
went to more advanced camps.
562 Men from Peoria
County were killed in that war
defending the Union….How many men from Peoria County
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