"Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman's March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white c
Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman’s March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white ci
In 1861, Francis Moore appeared to be a perfectly ordinary, twenty-three year old man: a carriagemaker in the bustling Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois. And there he might well have lived ou
