Description: A black and white 35mm negative of the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) Battle Flag exhibit at the Ohio History Center (1968-1972) taken by A.V. Shirk. The flags hung on the second floor plaza of the Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV283_B01F03_007
Subjects: Museum exhibits; Ohio Historical Society; Flags; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: Oliver Hazard Perry portrait, from Ben Lossings' "Fieldbook of the War of 1812." The Battle of Lake Erie, the decisive American victory over the British fleet in the War of 1812, took place on September 10, 1813. Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry led the American fleet and wrote in a report to General William Henry Harrison the famous phrase, "We have met the enemy and they are ours: two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." A month later, the British and American Indian forces were defeated at the Battle of the Thames near London, Ontario (Canada), ending the war. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04027
Subjects: Ohio -- History -- War of 1812; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Lake Erie
 

Description: Statue of a pioneer at the base of Fort Recovery Monument, Mercer County, Ohio. Fort Recovery, built in 1792, was the site of Major General Arthur St. Clair defeat by an Indian Confederacy under the leadership of Shawnee chief Weyapiersenwah (Blue Jacket) and Miami chief Mishikinakwa (Little Turtle). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00290
Subjects: Monuments; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Sculpture; St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818
Places: Fort Recovery (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a Ku Klux Klan musical band from Dayton, Ohio, parading in Springfield, Ohio, on September 8, 1923. The musicians are wearing white robes and conical hats, but their faces are unmasked. Leading the band is a drum major holding a baton. Bystanders are watching the parade from the sidewalk. After a period of decline during the Jim Crow years, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) emerged again during the 1910s. This reversal was partly due to the Great Migration, when hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved from the South to the North, seeking jobs in the North's industrialized cities, including many cities in Ohio. In addition, many people in the U.S. became involved in reform movements during the first decades of the twentieth century. Some of these movements supported middle-class, Protestant values and believed that non-whites and foreigners were a danger to these beliefs. Because of these fears and concerns, the Ku Klux Klan was able to find new supporters. The Ku Klux Klan was especially strong in Ohio during the 1910s and 1920s. In Summit County the Klan claimed to have fifty thousand members, making it the largest local chapter in the United States. Many of the county's officials were members, including the sheriff, the Akron mayor, several judges and county commissioners, and most members of Akron's school board. The Klan was also very popular in Licking County, where the group held its state konklave (convention) in 1923 and 1925. More than 70,000 people attended each event. The konklaves were held at Buckeye Lake, a popular tourist attraction in the early twentieth century. By the mid 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan began to decline in popularity, but saw a revival once again during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Ku Klux Klan continues to exist in the twenty-first century. It is, however, at present quite small in both numbers and influence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04363
Subjects: Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Ohio--History--20th century; Racism--United States--History--20th century; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Memorial to the last battle between the forces of General Nathaniel Massie and the Shawnee Indians in 1795. Located in Bainbridge, Ross County, Ohio, 1936. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00296
Subjects: Shawnee Indians--History; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Bainbridge (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a portrait of William Medill, ca. 1840-1849, a Democratic politician from Ohio, who served in the Ohio House of Representatives and was Speaker of the House from 1836-1837. From 1839 to 1846, he represented the 9th Ohio District in the United States House of Representatives. He was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1845 and served until 1850. Medill was elected to the new post of Lieutenant Governor of Ohio in 1851, where he served until Governor Reuben Wood resigned in 1853. He served as Governor until 1856. His last political post was the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury, where he served from 1857 to 1861. William Medill died on September 2, 1865 in Lancaster, Ohio. He had never married. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03729
Subjects: Men--Ohio; Ohio History; Politicians; Ohio History--State and Local Government
 

Description: Engraved portrait of Colonel John Johnston (1775-1861), who helped negotiate the Treaty of Upper Sandusky in 1842 and was a strong advocate of the Whig party. President James Madison selected Johnston as the Indian Agent overseeing the native reservations in northwestern Ohio. Johnston helped found Kenyon College and also served on the board of trustees of Miami University, in addition to publishing one of the earliest histories of the Native Americans that once called Ohio home. The portrait is taken from "Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03983
Subjects: Piqua (Ohio); Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Wyandot Indians--History; Miami University; Kenyon College
Places: Piqua (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio)
 

Description: This illustration depicts the scene at Shiloh Church, near Pittsburg Landing, on April 7, 1862. The First Ohio Regiment fought to recapture a Union artillery, eventually resulting in the conclusion of the Battle of Shiloh. The illustration shows Union forces firing cannons and preparing to surge toward the artillery, which has several men on the roof. The bodies of fallen or wounded soldiers and horses are strewn along the front of the buildings, and opposing forces can be seen approaching from the back of the image. This illustration was originally printed in "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War," by Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden, 1894. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04290
Subjects: Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; 1st Army of the Ohio
Places: Pittsburg Landing (Tennessee)
 

Description: A black and white 35mm negative of the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) Ohio Battle Flag collection exhibit at the Ohio History Center. This photograph was taken by A.V. Shirk, 1968-1972. The flags hung on display on the second floor plaza of the Ohio History Center museum in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV283_B01F03_010
Subjects: Museum exhibits; Ohio Historical Society; Flags; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: General Jacob D. Cox served as governor of Ohio from 1866 to 1868. From "Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1907. Cox also served with the Union Army during the Civil War. Originally from Montreal, Canada, Cox emigrated to the United States, and attended Oberlin College. After several pre-war political positions in Ohio, he joined the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Cox fought at Antietam, South Mountain, and Atlanta, and eventually became military supervisor for the District of Ohio and the District of Michigan. He went on to become the 28th Governor of Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04231
Subjects: Governors--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio History--Military Ohio, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Charles T. Webber created this oil painting in 1871. It depicts ten members of the Fighting McCooks, an Ohio family that sent fifteen men to serve in the Civil War. Daniel McCook, Sr. and his eight sons, together with his brother John McCook and his five sons, all fought for the Union in the Civil War. Daniel (1798-1863) and John (1806-1865) were born in Pennsylvania, and moved to Lisbon in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1826. Daniel subsequently moved to Carrollton, where he served as Carroll County's first clerk of the court of common pleas. John settled in Steubenville, where he practiced medicine. When President Lincoln made the first call for volunteers, 63-year-old Daniel Sr. answered and his sons and relatives followed. Daniel Sr., Daniel Jr., Robert Latimer, and Charles Morris McCook were killed in the war. Charles T. Webber was a native of New York state. He lived in Cincinnati from 1860 until his death in 1911, and created hundreds of works, including portraits, landscapes, genre subjects, and historical scenes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04237
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Families
Places: Carrollton (Ohio); Columbiana County (Ohio); Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This broadside, created in 1859 by the Democratic Party of Ohio, was directed to defeat William H. Gibson, the Radical Republican candidate for Congress, by reminding the public of his conviction in Ohio for embezzlement of state bonds. Gibson had participated in a cover-up of a deficiency in the Ohio Treasury, left by his predecessor, John G. Breslin. He was forced to resign as Ohio State Treasurer in 1857, and returned to Tiffin to start a law office. Gibson was Brigadier General of the Union Army’s 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War, and is remembered as a powerful orator and patriotic leader for his service in the war. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04279
Subjects: Political parties; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio--Politics and government--1787-1865
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)