Ohio Historical Society’s Travels Through Time Excursion Commemorates Sesquicentennial
With the start of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, the Ohio Historical Society’s Travels Through Time program is offering Journey South to the Civil War,   a three-day tour of Civil War sites in Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C., June 6-8, 2011.
“Our Travels Through Time tour will be [...]

In 1864, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Wildes of the 116th Ohio Volunteer Infantry refused to burn the town of Dayton, Virginia, a Mennonite community, despite orders to do so from General Phil Sheridan. Although threatened with court-martial, Lieutenant Colonel Wildes refused to carry out the order until it was countermanded. A monument [...]

On May 9th, 1861 Union General George B. McClellan moved troops from Ohio into western Virginia to secure the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad after Union northwestern Virginian soldiers became concerned by the increased Confederate military presence and activity on the tracks and stations of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a railroad line near the Mason-Dixon [...]