Place Unit Type
City or Town
Containing Unit
Union County, IL

Union County, Illinois (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
UNION COUNTY, situated on the southwesterly boundary of Illinois, with Mississippi river on the southwest. Area, 380 square miles. Seat of justice, Jonesborough. Pop. in 1820, 2,362; in 1830, 3,239; in 1840, 5,524; in 185O, 7,615.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 362.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Name Type
Union County Fairgrounds, Jonesboro, IL Location or Site
Date Title
Recollection by Henry Villard, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, June 16-November 2, 1858
Stephen Douglas to Abraham Lincoln, July 30, 1858
Recollection by Henry Villard, Freeport Debate, August 27,1858
Recollection by Henry Clay Whitney, Jonesboro Debate, September 15, 1858
Recollection by Horace White, Jonesboro Debate, September 15, 1858
Recollection by Usher F. Linder, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Abraham Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne, September 16, 1858
Abraham Lincoln to Martin P. Sweet, September 16, 1858
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "The Jonesboro Debate," September 17, 1858
Chicago (IL) Times, "The Campaign.--Douglas at Jonesboro," September 17, 1858
New York Evening Post, "Senatorial Canvas in Illinois," September 18, 1858
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Douglas Puffers and Valets," September 20, 1858
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "The Charleston Debate," September 21, 1858
Lowell (MA) Journal and Courier, "The Senatorial Canvass in Illinois," September 22, 1858
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Who Furnishes the Audiences?," September 23, 1858
(Springfield) Illinois State Register, "The Galesburg Debate," October 12, 1858
How to Cite This Page: "Jonesboro, IL," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hddev.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/14970.