Full Text of HR1342 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, On July 4th, 1866, General William Tecumseh | 3 | | Sherman attended the grand celebration of the Fourth of July at | 4 | | Salem in Marion County and gave
a patriotic speech; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, General Sherman (1820-1891) fought for the Union | 6 | | in the American Civil War under the leadership of President | 7 | | Abraham Lincoln; he is best remembered
for his capture of | 8 | | Atlanta, Georgia in September of 1864 and his "March to the | 9 | | Sea",
finally taking Savannah in December of 1864; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, An estimated 25,000 people attended General | 11 | | Sherman's speech, which he
presented on a wooden platform with | 12 | | a backdrop of tattered battle flags of various Illinois
| 13 | | regiments and mottoes complimentary to General Sherman, | 14 | | Governor Richard J. Oglesby, and
General John A. Logan; in | 15 | | addition, Col. E. N. Bates, of Centralia read the Declaration | 16 | | of
Independence and General John Alexander Logan, Union General | 17 | | and U.S. Senator, also gave a
speech; at the completion of Gen. | 18 | | Sherman's remarks, a glee club sang the tune "Sherman's
March | 19 | | to the Sea"; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, General Sherman's speech, recorded in the Weekly | 21 | | Missouri Democrat July 10, 1866,
was deemed more of an address | 22 | | to the nation than just the residents of Salem; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, 2016 marks the 150th anniversary of the | 2 | | presentation of General Sherman's speech and a
commemorative | 3 | | re-enactment of his speech and others will be presented
in | 4 | | Bryan Memorial Park (known as Hulls Grove at the time of the | 5 | | speech) on July 4, 2016; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Salem residents Geff Purcell and Luke Purcell led | 7 | | the organizing of this reenactment performed by Kaskaskia | 8 | | College English professor,
Clint Stevens, and by enlisting the | 9 | | cooperation and help of Danny Tolka, Jack McGuire, Lynn
and | 10 | | Mark Larimer, Linda and Glenn Burleson, the Salem City Council, | 11 | | the Salem Historical
Commission, the Salem Tourism Board, the | 12 | | Mount Olive Lodge No. 114 of the International
Order of Odd | 13 | | Fellows, the Luther B. Easley American Legion Post 128, and the | 14 | | Marion County
Genealogical and Historical Society; therefore, | 15 | | be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 18 | | commemorate and congratulate the City of Salem and all of the | 19 | | volunteers and community groups for their efforts to keep alive | 20 | | the history of our State and nation; and be it further
| 21 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 22 | | presented to the City of Salem and all
organizers who helped to |
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| 1 | | make this 150th Anniversary event a success.
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