This Flag Day, learn about the first U.S. military unit of African American soldiers to serve in the Civil War.
Meet Ben Baughman, newest History Curator at the Ohio History Connection, and learn about his connection to the General and Andrew's Raiders.
Significant Grant family photographs in the collections of the Ohio History Connection illustrate the life of Civil War General and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant.
During the American Civil War, Ohio devised a strategy to recruit short-term soldiers, known as Hundred Days Men.
John Brown and seven of his recruits who fought at Harpers Ferry were from Ohio. Learn their stories from before, during, and after the famous raid.
Did you know that during the Civil War the state of Ohio commissioned a cavalry company specifically to provide a personal bodyguard for President Abraham Lincoln?
Check in with our Manuscripts Intern, David, to see what he has been up to lately!
The letters and papers of a lesser known member of the regiment, Amos Gillis, are just as interesting.
A rifle that adapted a pistol's repeat fire technology for superior fire power.
