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On April 23, 1861, eleven days after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, Daniel Harmon Brush, cofounder of Carbondale, called a public meeting on the town square and delivered a patriotic speech in support of the Union. Two days later, Brush stood atop his building on the southwest corner of Illinois Avenue and Main Street, waved the American flag, and dared Southern sympathizers to take it down. His two speeches during the opening days of the Civil War affirmed the region's loyalty to the Union at a time when some in the area advocated secession or support of the South.
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Carbondale, Illinois · United States
