The document, donated by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, will go on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum from Wednesday, May 1 to February 2025.
Something new - or, rather, something more than 160 years old - will be on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union’s military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War is now among Illinois’ prized papers
The document, signed in 1861, was Lincoln’s order launching the famous “Anaconda Plan," which entailed the naval blockade of ports in Southern states that seceded from the Union.