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| | Alton, Illinois - Civil War Era - Elijah Parish Lovejoy |
 | | His press was wrecked by a mob in July, 1836, and he moved to Alton in the free State of Illinois. |
 | | The mob rushed the building, found the press, and threw it out a window to the riverbank, broke it into pieces and dumped the broken parts into the river, The body of Lovejoy was left undisturbed, remaining there until morning, guarded by friends who finally carried him home. |
 | | The mob action at Godfrey and Gilman warehouse was the first, but unrecorded, battle of the Civil War. |
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