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Camp Wool Monument, West Elementary School, Athens
1932 Ohio’s American Civil War soldiers and civilians sought to commemorate the troopers’ devotion to and service with the United States by constructing monuments … Read more
Camp Zanesville
With the Civil War’s outbreak, both the North and the South were ill prepared for the conflict. Ohio Governor William Dennison hoped to utilize … Read more
Cannon and Memorial, Weeks Cemetery, Bridgeport, Ohio
late 1800s, early 1900s Ohio’s American Civil War soldiers and civilians sought to commemorate the troopers’ devotion to and service with the United States … Read more
Cannon, Greenlawn Cemetery, Doanville, Ohio
Late 1800s, early 1900s Ohio’s American Civil War soldiers and civilians sought to commemorate the troopers’ devotion to and service with the United States … Read more
Charles Ewing
March 6, 1835 – June 20, 1883 Charles Ewing was a lawyer, Catholic Church representative, and soldier, who served the Union army as a … Read more
Don Carlos Buell
March 23, 1818 – November 19, 1898 Native Ohioan Don Carlos Buell was a Union general during the American Civil War who directed the … Read more
Edson Baldwin Olds
June 3, 1802 – January 24, 1869 Edson B. Olds was a Copperhead leader and three-term U.S. Congressman from Ohio. In 1862, federal officials … Read more
G.F. Wiles
Born in Zanesville, Ohio on April 4, 1826, Wiles earned a living as a steamboat captain and owner. He principally sailed his boat, the … Read more
Hugh Boyle Ewing
October 31, 1826 – June 30, 1905 Hugh Boyle Ewing was a lawyer, writer, ambassador and soldier, who served the Union army as a … Read more
Hugh Judge Jewett
On July 1, 1817, Jewett was born in Deer Creek, Maryland. As a child, his parents enrolled Jewett in the Hopewell Academy, a preparatory … Read more
