The Michigan-Illinois Canal

[william the wie]

I find little mention of it in American history and particularly Civil War History. But since most of the animals and food supplies needed to conduct the war by the north flowed through this canal I find this silence curious. Does anyone know why this silence persists?

 

[Muhammed]

You would have to be a serious Civil War buff to even recall that.

 

[william the wie]

I learned that recently as a retired adult checking some essays on agricultural land booms and busts.

 

[whitehall]

They probably used Irish laborers who fled the "great hunger".

 

[william the wie]

If I'm not mistaken it was completed prior to the famine. double checked that was wrong. It was the portage that was functional in the 1830s the actual canal was finished in 1848