A recent article on The Columbus Dispatch website announced that the Clyde Heritage League has just completed a $50,000 restoration of Gen. James B. McPherson’s childhood home. It is located at Maple Street and McPherson Highway in Clyde, Ohio.
McPherson was born on November 14, 1928 in Clyde, Ohio and was the highest ranking Ohio soldier [...]

[ October 4, 2009; 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] A group of Lancaster-area Civil War enthusiasts has launched a “Save the Cannon” campaign to raise funds for restoration of the town’s Civil War cannon.   According to Alice Stevens, the officer in charge of the initiative, the cannon was at the Battle of Shiloh with the 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was mainly made up [...]

The Battle of Shiloh occurred on April 6 and 7, 1862, at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston attacked a Union army under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant, hoping to repel the Northern advance.
In the previous few months, the Union military had won several victories in Kentucky and [...]