William P. Stewart was a prominent Wisconsin Farmer and Civil War veteran. Stewart was born on December 9, 1839, as a free person of color to Walden and Henrietta Stewart in Sangamon County, Illinois. He had five other siblings, four brothers and one sister. At the start of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln resisted […]
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