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Lake Erie near modern Put-in-Bay, Ohio: War of 1812 68 United Kingdom vs United States of America Battle of Buffington Island [15] July 19, 1863 Portland, Ohio / Buffington Island: American Civil War: Morgan's Raid (1863) 77 United States of America vs Confederate States of America: Battle of Salineville [16] July 26, 1863 near Salineville ...
During the American Civil War, the State of Ohio played a key role in providing troops, military officers, and supplies to the Union army.Due to its central location in the Northern United States and burgeoning population, Ohio was both politically and logistically important to the war effort.
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
The Battle of Buffington Island, also known as the St. Georges Creek Skirmish, was an American Civil War engagement in Meigs County, Ohio, and Jackson County, West Virginia, on July 19, 1863, during Morgan's Raid.
Morgan's Raid (also the Calico Raid or Great Raid of 1863) was a diversionary incursion by Confederate cavalry into the Union states of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia during the American Civil War. The raid took place from June 11 to July 26, 1863. It is named for the commander of the Confederate troops, Brigadier General John Hunt ...
Views in and Around Martinsburg, Virginia by A. R. Waud (Harper's Weekly, December 3, 1864). The U.S. state of West Virginia was formed out of western Virginia and added to the Union as a direct result of the American Civil War (see History of West Virginia), in which it became the only modern state to have declared its independence from the Confederacy.
The 2nd West Virginia took the right side of the road. [76] As the day progressed, Averell had Gibson's Cavalry Battalion, the 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry, the 2nd West Virginia, and three companies of the 3rd West Virginia on the right side of the road. On his left, he had the remaining portion of the 3rd West Virginia and the 8th West Virginia ...
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Stan Clark Military Books, 1996. ISBN 0-935523-50-2. Mellott, David W. and Snell, Mark A. The Seventh West Virginia Infantry: An Embattled Union Regiment from the Civil War's Most Divided State University Press of Kansas, 2019. Reid, Whitelaw, Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers. Volume 2.