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...
