Hometown Heroes: The Civil War

Hometown Heroes: The Civil War. , At the start of the Civil War, as in the rest of the country, emotions ran high in Delaware County. When President Lincoln called up the war's first Union soldiers, many men from Delaware County volunteered. No one knew what a long, bitter, bloody war it would be., Willcox Mills, at the former site of Sarum Forge, produced many kinds of paper - including those used for bank notes and currency. The Mills may have made the paper on which Union currency was printed - the money that financed their side of the war., The Willcox Mills also gained worldwide fame for its invention of an anti-counterfeiting process involving "localized fibers"., [Photo captions, clockwise from top left, read] , . Thorntons Civil War veterans honored at Bethlehem Methodist Episcopal Church, early 1900's., . Willcox Mills, . James Willcox, proprietor of Willcox Mills, . African American Civil War veterans laid to rest at the AME church., . A Union soldier, . Thornbury's Joseph Pratt, First Lieutenant, Company D, 124th; Captain, Company I, 29th Penna. Emergency [Militia], [Timeline] , 1861-1865 America fights the Civil War. , 1863 Lincoln gives the Gettysburg address. , 1878 Willcox Mills stops production of paper for currency, although the mills continue to operate. , 1889 The directors of the House of Refuge begin building on their new site in Glen Mills. , 1892 The Pledge of Allegiance is written.