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  Ottawa Civil War sites open for limited tours Written by Tom Collins.
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  by Everlit. The Wallace Dickey Cemetery Preservation Association announces guided
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  tours of the Wallace Dickey Cemetery and the Wallace Ancestral Home, the
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  Oak, on Sunday, September 27, and again on Sunday, October 4th. Registration
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  for the tours will begin at 8:30 a.m. At The Ottawa Historical
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  and Scouting Heritage Museum. Buses leave for the cemetery on a regular
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  basis. In addition to a tour of the cemetery, hosted by local
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  historian Dan Schott, people will also tour the Oaks, the Wallace family
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  home. Cost is 15 for adults and 10 for students. No pre-registration
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  is required. General WHL Wallace, a LaSalle County Civil War hero, was
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  killed leading his division during the Battle of Shiloh in eighteen sixty
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  two. He and his family are buried in this family cemetery on
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  the North Bluff in Ottawa. Chuck Sanders, president of the association, said
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  the cemetery is landlocked private property and is not often open to
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  the public. We're excited
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  to show off the progress we have made, Sanders said. This summer
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  we were able to complete The restoration of all The
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  walls of the cemetery, a major step in the preservation process. Our
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  next phase is creating and installing a stone cap for the top
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  of the walls. We are also very excited to be working with
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  Jay and Kim McCracken who are very graciously and generously adding tours
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  of their home, the Oaks, to our event. The Oaks was built
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  by Wallace for his wife Anne and completed about eighteen sixty. All
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  money raised will be used for the restoration and preservation of the
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  Wallace Dickey Cemetery. Donations may also be mailed directly to the Wallace
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  Dickey Cemetery Preservation Association, P.O. Box 392, Ottawa, Illinois 61350.