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The Battle of Fort Fizzle was an uprising in Holmes County to protect local residents from federal provost marshals and deputies sent to Ohio to enforce the Conscription Act, which was also known as the Enrollment Act, during the American Civil War.
As the Civil War dragged on and the number of [...]

February Featured Topic
Like some residents of other Northern states, numerous Ohioans strenuously objected to the American Civil War. Various reasons existed for the reluctance of these Ohioans and their fellow Northerners to support the Union.
A sizable number of white Ohioans, especially those living along the Ohio River, had migrated to the state from slaveholding states. [...]

When Congress passed the Conscription Act of 1863 in March the proposed draft was immediately met with resistance. Copperheads, Northerners who opposed the draft and demanded immediate peace be made with the South, encouraged people to resist the draft and encouraged draftees to abandon camp once they were drafted.
Many people associate Union draft resistance to [...]