Notable Ohioans in the Civil War
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Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Mary Ann (Ball) Bickerdyke was a nurse and health care provider to the Union Army during the American Civil War.
John Brough
John Brough (pronounced "bruff") served as Ohio governor from 1864 to 1865.
John Brown
John Brown's obsession with ending slavery eventually led him to violence and his eventual death.
Don C. Buell
Don Carlos Buell was a Union military leader from Ohio during the American Civil War.
Ambrose Burnside
Ambrose Burnside was an important military leader for the North during the American Civil War.
Asa Bushnell
Asa Smith Bushnell was the fortieth governor of Ohio. He was born in Rome, New York, in 1834.
Salmon P. Chase
Salmon Portland Chase was an Ohio governor and prominent political leader during the mid nineteenth century.
Jay Cooke
Jay Cooke was a prominent American banker and a principal financier of the Union military effort during the American Civil War.
George Crook
George Crook was an American military leader whose career spanned the era from the American Civil War to the closing of the Western frontier.
George A. Custer
George Armstrong Custer was an American military leader who became known as a cavalry commander for the North during the American Civil War and in the opening of the West in the years after this conflict.
William Dennison Jr.
Ohio governor William Dennison, Jr., was born in Cincinnati on November 23, 1815. His mother, Mary Carter Dennison, was originally from New England, and his father, William Dennison, Sr., was from New Jersey.
Fighting McCooks
During the American Civil War, fifteen members of the McCook family from Ohio fought for the Union, earning them the nickname, "The Fighting McCooks."
Joseph B. Foraker
Joseph Benson Foraker served as Ohio's Governor from 1886 to 1890.
Charles Foster
Ohio governor Charles Foster was born on April 12, 1828. His father, Charles W. Foster opened a store in 1832 in the small community of Rome in Seneca County, Ohio.
James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield was the twentieth President of the United States.
Quincy Gillmore
Quincy Gillmore was a Civil War military leader from Ohio. He was born on February 28, 1825, at Black River, Ohio. His father was a staunch supporter of President John Quincy Adams, and named his son Quincy Adams Gillmore.
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American military leader and the eighteenth President of the United States. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio.
William Groesbeck
Ohio political leader William Groesbeck was born on July 24, 1815, in Kinderhook, New York. While he was still a baby, his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio.
Benjamin Harrison
President Benjamin Harrison was born on August 20, 1833, in North Bend, Ohio. His great-grandfather was John Cleves Symmes, and his grandfather was President William Henry Harrison.
Rutherford B. Hayes
President Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, on October 4, 1822. His parents had moved to Ohio from Vermont in 1817.
William B. Hazen
William Hazen a military leader in the Army of the United States in the American Civil War and after. He was born on September 27, 1830, at West Hartford, Vermont.
Joseph W. Keifer
Joseph Warren Keifer was a prominent nineteenth century Ohio political and military leader.
Johnny Klem
Johnny Clem was a soldier in the service of the United States for most of his life. He was born on August 13, 1851, in Newark, Ohio. His actual name was John Joseph Klem.
Mortimer Leggett
Mortimer Leggett was an attorney, educator and military leader in nineteenth century Ohio.
George B. McClellan
George B. McClellan was a prominent nineteenth century American military and political leader.
Alexander McCook
Alexander McCook was born on April 22, 1831, in Columbiana County, Ohio. The next year, he moved with his parents to Carroll County. In 1848, McCook received an appointment to West Point, graduating in 1842. McCook would spend the rest of his life in the United States Army.
Irvin McDowell
Irvin McDowell was a nineteenth century American military leader.
James B. McPherson
General James Birdseye McPherson was the highest ranking Ohio soldier to die in the American Civil War.
Samuel Medary
Samuel Medary was a nineteenth century Ohio journalist and political leader.
Ormsby M. Mitchel
Ormsby McKnight Mitchel was an attorney, educator, astronomer and Union army military leader in the American Civil War.
George Pendleton
George Pendleton was a prominent nineteenth century Ohio political leader who strongly supported federal civil service reform.
William C. Quantrill
William Clarke Quantrill was a leader of Confederate guerrilla forces during the American Civil War.
Charles Reemelin
Charles Reemelin was an important figure in Ohio politics during the middle part of the nineteenth century.
William S. Rosecrans
William Starke Rosecrans was a major military leader in the American Civil War.
Robert C. Schenck
Robert Schenck was a political and military leader in nineteenth century Ohio.
Philip H. Sheridan
Philip Sheridan was major figure in the military history of the United States in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
John Sherman
During the late nineteenth century, John Sherman was a prominent United States Senator and Secretary of the Treasury from Ohio.
William T. Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman was a prominent nineteenth century military leader from Ohio.
David S. Stanley
David S. Stanley was a military leader in the Army of the United States for much of the last half of the nineteenth century.
Edwin M. Stanton
Edwin McMasters Stanton was the Secretary of War in the Lincoln administration during the American Civil War.
Harriet B. Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist in the years before the American Civil War.
Wager Swayne
Wager Swayne was a military leader from Ohio during the American Civil War.
Clement Vallandigham
Clement Vallandigham was a leader of the Ohio Democratic Party and an opponent of the American Civil War.
Benjamin F. Wade
Benjamin Franklin Wade was a political leader from Ohio and a Radical Republican in the Reconstruction years after the American Civil War.
Lewis Wallace
Lewis Wallace was a well-known American soldier, political figure and author in nineteenth century America.
Godfrey Weitzel
Godfrey Weitzel was a Union army officer in the American Civil War.
Charles Whittlesey
Charles Whittlesey was a prominent soldier, attorney and scholar in nineteenth century Ohio.
Thomas L. Young
Thomas Lowry Young served as Ohio's Governor for slightly less than one year, beginning in 1877, when he succeeded Rutherford B. Hayes, who resigned to become President of the United States.
Gilbert Van Zandt
Gilbert Van Zandt was one of the youngest Ohioans to serve in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Brown, John (1)
Brown, John (2)
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Burnside, Ambrose (1)
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Chase, Salmon P. (1)
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Clem, John
Cox, Jacob D. (1)
Cox, Jacob D. (2)
Cox, Jacob D. (3)
Crook, George
Custer, George A. (1)
Custer, George A. (2)
Custer, George A. (3)
Custer, George A. (4)
Custer, George A. (5)
Custer, George A. (6)
Custer, George A. (7)
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Dennison, William, Jr. (1)
Garfield, James A. (1)
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Grant, Ulysses S. (01)
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Harrison, Benjamin
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McClellan, George B. (1)
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McCook, Anson G.
McCook, Daniel, Sr.: with Rifle
McCook, Major General Alexander McDowell
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McDowell, Irvin
McKinley, William (1)
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McKinley, William (3)
McPherson, Major General James B.
Medary, Samuel
Pendleton, George H. (1)
Pendleton, George H. (2)
Rosecrans, William S.(1)
Sheridan, Philip H. (1)
Sheridan, Philip H. (2)
Sheridan, Philip H. (3)
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Sherman, William T. (1)
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Sherman, William T. (3)
Sherman, William T. (4)
Sherman, William T. (5)
Sherman, William T. (6)
Sherman, William T. (7)
Stanton, Edwin M.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (2)
Tod, David
Vallandigham, Clement (1)
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Wade, Benjamin F. (1)
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Whittlesey, Charles
