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There are threats to the site as gravel mining operations have been allowed. The current organization working to preserve the battlefield is the Buffington Island Battlefield Preservation Foundation. In September 2022, the American Battlefield Trust and its partners acquired and preserved 108 acres of the battlefield. [5]
At the subsequent Battle of Buffington Island in Ohio, Union troops won a decisive victory and captured 1,025 of Morgan's men in total, including his brother Richard and noted cavalryman Col. Basil W. Duke. [16] [21] Cut off from safety by the Union gunboats, Morgan and his remaining cavaliers headed northeast back into Ohio.
Buffington Island is an island in the Ohio River in Jackson County, West Virginia near the town of Ravenswood, United States, east of Racine, Ohio. During the American Civil War , the Battle of Buffington Island took place on July 19, 1863, just south of the Ohio community of Portland .
John Hunt Morgan (June 1, 1825 – September 4, 1864) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War.In April 1862, he raised the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, fought at Shiloh, and then launched a costly raid in Kentucky, which encouraged Braxton Bragg's invasion of that state.
August 2, 1813 modern Sandusky County, Ohio: War of 1812 27 United Kingdom & Tecumseh's confederacy vs United States of America Battle of Put-in-Bay: September 10, 1813 Lake Erie near modern Put-in-Bay, Ohio: War of 1812 68 United Kingdom vs United States of America Battle of Buffington Island [15] July 19, 1863 Portland, Ohio / Buffington Island
Site of Morgan's surrender, sketched by Henry Howe from an 1886 photograph. Morgan encountered Capt. James Burbeck, one of Lisbon's militia commanders, along the road. [citation needed] Morgan convinced Burbeck to allow him to surrender his command, provided Burbick promised to take the sick and wounded soldiers and allow Morgan and his officers to be paroled so they could return home to Kentucky.
The 9th West Virginia Infantry was a part of Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August from 6th to November 1. They were at Halltown August 24 and 26 and Berryville September 3. They participated in the Battle of Opequon, Winchester, September 19. They moved on to Fisher's Hill September 22.
Many of the three-months men reenlisted for three years on June 22–24, and the regiment was mustered in on June 26 under Col. Herman S. DePuy of Sandusky. [2] On the evening of July 8, the regiment loaded onto trains and traveled to Grafton, Virginia, termed the "seat of war" by Lt. Col. Franklin Sawyer. [3]