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National Park Service map of Civil War sites in Ohio Vol 1 Roster of Ohio Soldiers 1893 {3 months Regiments of 1861; also includes Roster of the 5th {127th OVI} and 27th USCT Regiments } Vol II Roster of Ohio Soldiers 1st-20th Infantry 1886
The Battle of Vienna, Virginia was a minor engagement between Union and Confederate forces on June 17, 1861, during the early days of the American Civil War.. The Union was trying to protect the areas of Virginia opposite Washington, D.C., and established a camp at Vienna, at the end of a 15-mile (24.1 km) railroad to Alexandria.
Map of Kessler's Cross Lanes Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program.. On August 26, Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd, commanding Confederate forces in the Kanawha Valley, crossed the Gauley River to attack Col. Erastus Tyler's 7th Ohio Infantry Regiment encamped at Kessler's Cross Lanes.
The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) was fought on October 27–28, 1864, in Henrico County, Virginia, as part of the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
The Virginia Military District was an approximately 4.2 million acre (17,000 km 2) area of land in what is now the state of Ohio that was reserved by Virginia to use as payment in lieu of cash for its veterans of the American Revolutionary War. Virginia had historic claims to much of the Northwest Territory, which included Ohio, dating from its ...
In West Virginia, a highway marker titled "Ohio River Ford" marks the spot at Ravenswood where Jenkins crossed into Ohio. [50] On the Ohio side, a historical marker titled "First Ohio Invasion" discusses the invasion, and is placed at Buffington Island north of the actual crossing point. [125]
Several wars that have directly affected the region including the French and Indian War (1754–1763), American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), Tecumseh's War (1811–1812), War of 1812 (1812–1814), and the American Civil War (1860–1865).
National Park Service map of Civil War sites in Virginia: 1861–62; National Park Service map of Civil War sites in Virginia: 1863; National Park Service map of Civil War sites in Virginia: 1864; National Park Service map of Civil War sites in Virginia: 1865; Virginia Convention of 1861 in Encyclopedia Virginia