[ January 17, 2012; 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] The Wayne County Civil War Roundtable is hosting a Movie Night where they will be showing “The Conspirator” in the Conference Room West of the Wayne County Public Library. A film by Robert Redford, “The Conspirator” tells the exciting yet suspenseful tale of the Mary Surratt trial; who was charged with the assassination of Abraham [...]

The official Ohio Civil war 150 traveling exhibit is coming to Zanesville. Sponsored by the Muskingum County Library System, the Ohio Historical Society’s new traveling exhibit, Ohio and the Civil War: 150 Years Later, will be on display from January 9 to January 31st, 2012 as Muskingum County commemorates the anniversary of the Civil War.
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[ January 19, 2012; 7:15 pm to 9:00 pm. ] In 1861, 74-year old General Winfield Scott recommended a broad strategy to President Lincoln to blockade the South’s 3,500-mile coastline and to invade along the Mississippi River to outflank and split the South. The press derided the idea and called it the “Anaconda Plan.” The Lincoln administration informally adopted this strategy that became a monumental [...]

[ January 9, 2012 to January 31, 2012. ] The Muskingum County Library System is set to host the official Ohio Civil War 150 exhibit.  The Ohio Historical Society, in partnership with the Ohio Humanities Council and American Electric Power, sponsored development of “Ohio & The Civil War: 150 Years Later”, a special travelling panel exhibit produced for the Civil War’s sesquicentennial. The exhibit [...]

[ January 9, 2012 9:00 am to February 17, 2012 4:00 pm. ]  

Join the Quaker Heritage Center for “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War,” a national traveling exhibition which focuses on Abraham Lincoln’s struggle to meet the constitutional challenges of the Civil War, on display at the Quaker Heritage Center from January 9 – February 17, 2012.

Abraham Lincoln was elected the sixteenth President of the United States in 1860, at a [...]