1863

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1863 - First plank sidewalk is built on Collinsville Avenue and east on Illinois Avenue to Sixth Street.

The School Board establishes Lower School on the public square with Esther W. Pearson as principal. There are three teachers.

The Mississippi River freezes over.

St. Peter's Lutheran Church organized by twenty-five men who meet in the home of Ferdinand Klauenberg.

Henry Jackeisch becomes the new mayor and serves from 1863-65. He will be an anti-Bowmanite in the 1877 city government crisis.

From the outbreak of the Civil War, Bloody Island becomes a gathering place for lawless characters. The police courts of St. Louis, with perfect impunity, make it the Botany Bay (a British penal colony in Australia) of the city.

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A fresh attempt is made to bring the Island area under municipal control of East St. Louis. However, the Wiggins Ferry people use their considerable influence in the state legislature to defeat a bill that would have enlarged the jurisdiction of the city.

The 80th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment is captured by Nathan Bedford Forrest's men. (After the war, Forrest will become one of the founders of the KKK.) The enlisted men took part in Sherman's Atlanta campaign. The regiment largely consisted of soldiers from St. Clair County and was dominated by East St. Louisans. The 82nd Regiment, with a large contingent of Germans from the area, fight as part of the Union's 11th Corps at Gettysburg.

A telegraph line is completed from East St. Louis to the Illinois Central Railroad office.

 

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