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The Battle of New Market Heights: the 5th USCT’s “Glory”

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...

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