Chicago Fire Survivor's Terrifying Account #chicago #fire Union Major General John A. Logan embodies change over time. He started out as a Democratic politician from Illinois, who wanted to deny African Americans access to Illinois, didn't believe in coercion of the southern states back into the Union, and opposed emancipation. The American Civil War changed him. He began to support emancipation, saw secession as evil, and in the conflict, led a corps in the famed Army of Tennessee, taking part