ROCK ISLAND ... Garrison Rock Island Arsenal put his name on a street in its new Eagle Point Housing Area. The Arsenal named another street after Milton Howard, a Civil War veteran who was the ...

This is the first of a series of six articles looking at the 160-year history of Rock Island Arsenal ... as a military fort to the end of the Civil War. The second article will focus on the ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — The Civil War monument that long stood on the old Rock Island County Courthouse lawn is much closer to a needed makeover. Portions of the monument's pedestal were taken apart ...

For nine months during the Civil War, a regiment of Black soldiers, many of them former slaves, guarded confederate prisoners on what is now the Rock Island Arsenal. For the past 30 years, ...

The group working to restore Rock Island County's monument to its Civil War dead has almost tripled its funds for the project. The monument, at the Rock Island County Courthouse, is a stone ...