Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Friday, July 10, 2026

Lt. Alfred H. Rice: 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Civil War

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Lt. Alfred H. Rice Rutherford B Hayes Library and Museums   Alfred H. Rice, son of Robert S. Rice and Elisa Caldwell was born in Fremont, Oh...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Panoramic View of Johnson's Island and Sandusky

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  Panoramic View of Johnson's Island and Sandusky, Ohio, 1864,  by Philip Nunan The following information appears on the website of the ...
Friday, June 7, 2024

Andrew Jackson Ellison, Company C 88th US Colored Troops

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Andrew Jackson Ellison was born in Ohio March 4, 1835. He was one of 12 children of John and Sarah Ellison who were both born in Virginia. S...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Moses Johnson of the 100th U.S. Colored Troops

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  Moses Johnson was born in 1832 in Maryland where he worked as a laborer.  Noted on his military service record was "refugee of North ...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Civil War Letter of Lt. Amos E. Wood of Woodville, Ohio

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Lt. Amos E. Wood John B. Rice Collection Hayes Presidential Library and Museums   The following is a transcription of a letter written to Sg...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

General James B. McPherson's 17th Corps Medal

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After a siege of more than six weeks, the city of Vicksburg fell on the 4 th of July 1863 to Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant’s Union for...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

For the Love of Maps

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  Recently I lost a map of the state of Ohio that I purchased several years ago. It was expensive, printed on fine paper, and beautiful. It ...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Island Son Finds Life’s Calling Far From Home

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  Island Son Finds Life’s Calling Far From Home   When we think of the Kelley families, we immediately think of that island in our Lake ...
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Sunday, February 21, 2021

The Sinking of the Sultana: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster

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  On April 27, 1865, America experienced its greatest maritime disaster. More people died in the boiler explosion of the Cincinnati-built s...
Monday, May 18, 2020

William Feaga of the 72nd Ohio at the Running of the Vicksburg Batteries

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Union Soldiers at Vicksburg by Kurtz and Allison On April 16,  1863, a joint army/naval operation was commanded by  General Ulysses S...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Jacob Souder Holtz: Seneca County Ohio Civil War Soldier

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Letter by Jacob S. Holtz, 164th ONG to his Mother 22nd June, 1864 Jacob Souder Holtz,  son of Jacob P. and Susannah (Huss) Holtz...
Sunday, July 7, 2019

The Kellogg Brothers of the 68th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

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Sgt. Thomas Kellogg Courtesy of L. M. Strayer   Thomas Kellogg, a young man of 18, was one of nearly 3,000 Sandusky Countians to ser...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Johnson's Island Civil War Confederate Officers Prison: Autograph Book ca. 1863

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JOHNSON’S ISLAND CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE OFFICERS PRISON  AUTOGRAPH BOOK ca. 1863 The following names of Confederate officers, their r...
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