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U.S.S. Michigan
Built at Erie, Pennsylvania and commissioned in 1843, the U.S.S. Michigan spent its entire career patrolling the Great Lakes. For most of its term of service, it was the only iron-hulled ship patrolling the Great Lakes in the United States Navy. Built at Erie, Pennsylvania and commissioned in 1843, the U.S.S. Michigan spent its entire…
Union Light Guard
1862–Reconstruction In the American Civil War, Ohio provided the federal government with 260 regiments of men, including infantry, artillery, and cavalry units. Ohioans also served in several other regiments from other states, most notably from Kentucky, West Virginia, and Massachusetts, as well as in federal units. In the American Civil War, Ohio provided the federal…
Union Medicine
1861–1865 During the American Civil War, the Union had the equivalent of 1,556,678 three-year enlistments, compared with roughly 1,083,000 for the Confederacy. Over 620,000 men perished, a figure that tops the total fatalities of all other wars in which Americans have fought. During the war, the average soldier could expect to become sick 5 or…
Wade Hampton III
March 28, 1818 – April 11, 1902 A prominent Confederate cavalry officer, Wade Hampton III also served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator from the Palmetto State after the American Civil War. Wade Hampton III was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 28, 1818. He was the first of…
Wade-Davis Bill
1864 Co-authored by Ohio Senator Benjamin Wade and Maryland Congressman Henry Winter Davis in 1864, the Wade-Davis Bill was an attempt to impose harsh Reconstruction terms on the South, which President Lincoln pocket vetoed. Union fortunes on the battlefield were not faring well at the beginning of 1863. Forces in the West had won hard-fought…
White’s Battery of Ohio Volunteer Artillery
1862–1865 In the American Civil War, Ohio provided the federal government with 260 regiments of men, including infantry, artillery, and cavalry units. Ohioans also served in several other regiments from other states, most notably from Kentucky, West Virginia, and Massachusetts, as well as in federal units. In the American Civil War, Ohio provided the federal…
William Babcock Hazen
September 27, 1830 – January 16, 1887 A prominent Union officer, Major General William B. Hazen served in nearly all of the major campaigns in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. William Babcock Hazen was born on September 27, 1830, in West Hartford, Vermont. He was the third son and the fifth of…
William Buel Franklin
February 27, 1823 – March 8, 1903 As commander of the 6th and 19th Army Corps, William B. Franklin served the Union in the Eastern and Western Theaters of the American Civil War. William B. Franklin was born in York, Pennsylvania on February 27, 1823. He was the first of six children of Walter S.…
William Clarke Quantrill
July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865 William C. Quantrill was a Confederate irregular whose band of raiders employed guerrilla tactics in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the Civil War to harass Union troops and terrorize Northern sympathizers. William Clarke Quantrill was born in Canal Dover (now Dover), Ohio, on October 11, 1837. He was the…
William Dennison, Jr.
November 23, 1815 – June 15, 1882 William Dennison, Jr., was the twenty-fourth Governor of Ohio, serving from January 9, 1860, through January 13, 1862. Dennison also served as Postmaster General of the United States from 1864 to 1866. William Dennison, Jr., was born at Cincinnati, Ohio on November 23, 1815. He was the son…