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People of Ohio in the American Civil War
- Benjamin HarrisonBenjamin Harrison holds a peculiar distinction in American history: he is the only person to have served as president between two terms of the same opponent.
- Rutherford B. HayesRutherford B. Hayes became the 19th president of the United States under a cloud so thick that his critics called him "Rutherfraud" and "His Fraudulency" for…
- Don Carlos BuellDon Carlos Buell was born on the 23rd of March 1818 in Lowell, Ohio. He entered a world where his father died when he was eight years old. His uncle James P.
- James A. GarfieldJames Abram Garfield was born on the 19th of November 1831 inside a log cabin in Orange Township, Ohio. His father Abraham had traveled from Worcester, New…
- William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman was born on the 8th of February, 1820, in Lancaster, Ohio, and by the time he died seventy-one years later, he had helped reshape…
- Irvin McDowellIrvin McDowell's name is permanently attached to one of the most humiliating afternoons in American military history. On a summer day in 1861, the Union Army…
- Quincy Adams GillmoreQuincy Adams Gillmore entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1845. He graduated in 1849 as first in a class of 43 members.
- George B. McClellanGeorge Brinton McClellan arrived in Washington in the summer of 1861 as the man the Union had been waiting for. He had won the only land battles of the war…
- Philip SheridanPhilip Henry Sheridan was born on the 6th of March, 1831, the third of six children of Irish Catholic immigrants from Killinkere parish in County Cavan…
- George CrookGeorge R. Crook was born on the 8th of September 1828 to Thomas and Elizabeth Matthews Crook on a farm near Taylorsville, Ohio.
- William Babcock HazenWilliam Babcock Hazen was born on the 27th of September 1830 in West Hartford, Vermont. He moved to Ohio when he was three years old and spent his boyhood in…
- William RosecransWilliam Starke Rosecrans was born on a farm near Little Taylor Run in Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio. He grew up as the second of five sons to…