For those who hoped and prayed the Civil War would soon end, February of 1865 provided the path toward a Union victory with the fall of Charleston, S.C., where the war began, and the raising of the ...
• Part 37 -- Civil War of April 1864 saw atrocities and setbacks for the Union while Springfield flourished • Part 38 -- Civil War 150th anniversary: The battlefield carnage of May 1864 hits home in ...
A lot has changed since 1865, when Springfield Grocer Company was founded. At that time, it sold items like bullets, dry goods, education supplies and barbed wire to early settlers and farmers. It was ...