The 11th Annual Civil War Symposium was held Saturday, Jan. 26, at Rockford’s Midway Village Museum Center, 6799 Guilford Road. Pictured, keynote speaker Douglas Wilson, Lincoln scholar and co-director of the Lincoln studies Center at Knox College, speaks about Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address. Two other local Civil War presentations — “Sons of Thunder: The History of Battery H, 1st Illinois Light Artillery” and “The History of the Illinois Monument at Andersonville Prison” were also presented. (Photo by Jon McGinty)