A bayonet discovered by a Central Illinois man tilling his garden may have a connection to Grant's March, the July 1861 journey that took then-Col. Ulysses S. Grant and 1,000 ...

A bayonet discovered by a Jacksonville man tilling his garden may have a connection to Grant's March, the July 1861 journey that took then-Col. Ulysses S. Grant and 1,000 soldiers from Illinois to ...

“The one bayonet is a Springfield bayonet, 1860. ... 1861, until spring 1866. In the Union Army, McCaul served in Company G, 1st Regiment U.S. Sharpshooters (volunteers).