Cowan’s Auctions Inc. will host their American History, Including the Civil War Auction on Thursday, June 21, beginning at 10 a.m. EDT. The 400-lot auction will be held in Cowan’s salesroom and will include scarce daguerreotypes, photographs of the American West, 19th century photography, manuscripts, books, maps, political campaign ephemera and flags.
LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.
Bill Storrs is retired, and he and his wife, Barbara, go to about a dozen Civil War reenactments a year all over the country as participants in the events.
That includes a trip to East Harbor State Park, and the Storrs’ were among a group of reenactors at the park Saturday and Sunday, as part of the park’s ninth annual Civil War Encampment.
Enlistments are currently being accepted by the James A. Garfield National Historic Site for kids ages 5 to 12 in its Garfield Mini Militia Drill scheduled for June 9 at the former home of the 20thPresident of the United States in Mentor.
“This is another one of our Civil War 150th anniversary events,” said Todd Arrington,the site’s chief of interpretation and education . “Basically we take up to 25 kids and give them an induction ceremony.
Civil War general and Lancaster native William T. Sherman was one of six individuals on Thursday to be named a 2012 Great Ohioan by the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board.
The 2012 honorees were presented by the Capitol Square Foundation and unanimously approved by the full membership of the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board. All six were selected from nominations submitted by individuals and organizations throughout Ohio.
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Civil War-era newspapers once published in Mount Vernon will come to life again in digital format thanks to a grant from The Community Foundation of Mount Vernon and Knox County and the Ariel Foundation.
Digital reproductions of the Mount Vernon Democratic Banner and the Mount Vernon Republican will meet the technical standards set by the National Digital Newspaper Program and will be freely available through searches at Ohio Memory at www.ohio.memory.org.
As the early morning fog lifted, a steamboat carrying the first load of Confederate soldiers and their horses crossed the Ohio River at Brandenburg, Ky., and stepped out of the boat onto Northern soil.
The two captured steamboats made countless trips back and forth across the Ohio that day and night, July 8, 1863. Sometime after midnight, the last of General John Hunt Morgan’s 2,500 soldiers, their horses and other equipment had been transported to the southern Indiana side of the river.
December of 1861 saw the first year of the Civil War coming to a close.
Thus far, the struggle had favored the Confederacy, and though Union forces had made inroads along the Atlantic Coast, the Southerners seemed to be holding the upper hand.
On Dec. 3, President Lincoln made his State of the Union Address to Congress, asserting that “the Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means must be employed.”
The following letter from Huttonsville, W.Va., was dated Dec. 5, 1861, and published in a local newspaper:
Mr. Editor: Not knowing the address of the friends of Ervin Starr, late a private in Capt. Albert S. Hall’s Co. 24, Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, I take the means of communicating through you the intelligence of his decease.
He died last night from disease superinduced by severe exposure while on Cheat Mountain (in West Virginia).
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