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Camp Chase was an American Civil War training and prison camp established in May 1861, on land leased by the U.S. Government. [ 4 ] It replaced the much smaller Camp Jackson which was established by Ohio Governor William Dennison Jr as a place for Ohio's union volunteers to meet. [ 4 ] It originally operated from a city park.
The Civil War Trust 's Civil War Discovery Trail is a heritage tourism program that links more than 600 U.S. Civil War sites in more than 30 states. The program is one of the White House Millennium Council 's sixteen flagship National Millennium Trails. Sites on the trail include battlefields, museums, historic sites, forts and cemeteries.
2,462. Casualties and losses. 6,000 prisoners paroled. 2,000 prisoners taken. 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.
Ohio troops fought in nearly every major campaign during the war. Nearly 7,000 Buckeye soldiers were killed in action. Its most significant Civil War site is Johnson's Island, located in Sandusky Bay of Lake Erie. Barracks and outbuildings were constructed for a prisoner of war depot, intended chiefly for officers.
One of the relatively few monuments to black soldiers that participated in the American Civil War, 1924. Captain Andrew Offutt Monument, Lebanon, 1921. Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument, Morgantown at the Butler County Courthouse, 1907. 32nd Indiana Monument, near Munfordville. The oldest surviving memorial to the Civil War, 1862.
Renovated. 2008. Cost. $272,800. Design and construction. Architect (s) Levi Scofield. The Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is a major Civil War monument in Cleveland, Ohio, honoring the more than 9,000 individuals from Cuyahoga County who served the Union throughout the war. [1] It was dedicated on July 4, 1894, and is located ...
The 7th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment formed in northeastern Ohio for service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater in a number of campaigns and battles with the Army of Virginia and the Army of the Potomac, and was then transferred to the Western Theater, where it joined the Army of ...
Designated VLR. October 16, 1984 [1] Ball's Bluff Battlefield Regional Park and National Cemetery is a battlefield area and a United States National Cemetery, located 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Leesburg, Virginia. The cemetery is the third smallest national cemetery in the United States. [4] Fifty-four Union Army dead from the Battle of Ball ...