by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Apr 7, 2015 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent and researcher [Warning – the following text contains some racist language in its original, historic context] In the evening mist of April 11, 1865, Oberlin’s African American political leader, John...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Nov 13, 2014 | Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent November 1864 – 150 years ago this month – saw a curious spectacle in the American Civil War. After Union General William Sherman captured the city of Atlanta from Confederate General John Bell Hood,...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Sep 24, 2014 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent 150 years ago this week, an important, but often overlooked, battle was fought in the American Civil War. It was the Battle of New Market Heights, fought September 29, 1864, on the outskirts of the Confederate...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jul 25, 2014 | Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent The party was such a success that it would make the local paper. Fifty guests crowded into the house on South Water Street (present day Park Street) – among them the Mayor of Oberlin, Civil War veterans,...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | May 26, 2014 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent It was February 4, 1861, and the United States of America was coming unglued. On this date Oberlin residents gathered together to pray and discuss their response. Three months earlier the country, Oberlin...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Nov 22, 2013 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War, Reconstruction Era
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent It’s no secret that one of the primary goals of Oberlin College in its first decades of existence was to train Americans to become missionaries who would go out into the world and crusade against slavery...
