Description: Photographic reproduction of a drawing of Yeatman's Cove, Cincinnati, Ohio. The drawing illustrates the life of early settlers in the Cincinnati area. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00234
Subjects: Hamilton County (Ohio); Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Toledo War was a border dispute between the state of Ohio and the Michigan Territory during the first several decades of the nineteenth century. This illustration, which depicts a sunrise court during the Toledo War, appears in "The Story of Ohio," published by Alexander Black in 1881. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04191
Subjects: Toledo (Ohio); Military Ohio; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Ohio--Boundaries--Michigan
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of General William Tecumseh Sherman from Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. Sherman, who rose in rank during the Civil War, was promoted to full general and commander of the United States Army by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869. He held this post until his retirement in 1883 and passed away in 1891. This portrait was produced as a memorial to General Sherman after his death. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00543
Subjects: Fairfield County (Ohio); Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military officers
Places: Lancaster (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio); New York (New York)
 

Description: Portrait of General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1869. Sherman, who rose in rank during the Civil War, was promoted to full general and commander of the United States Army by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00546
Subjects: Soldiers--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military officers
Places: New York (New York)
 

Description: Photograph of Beryl Drummond at Great Lakes Training Station Boot Camp, 1941. Born June 16, 1918, Beryl Esco Drummond was a member of the "Waterloo Wonders" high school basketball team, of Waterloo, Ohio. They were the second Ohio high school basketball team in Class B to win consecutive state championships, in 1934 and 1935. After high school, Drummond continued to play semi-professional basketball with teams such as the Whiskered Wizards and the Acme Aviators (sponsored by the Acme Pattern & Toll Company of Dayton, Ohio). He played his last basketball game in the winter of 1952, after a disappointing game at the Knights of Columbus gym in Columbus, Ohio. He later worked as assistant superintendent at Sleepy Hollow Golf Club in Brecksville, Ohio and at the Green Acres Country Club in Florida. He died April 26, 1982. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06028
Subjects: Waterloo (Ohio); Ohio History--Military Ohio; Basketball--Ohio--History
Places: Waterloo (Ohio); Lawrence County (Ohio); Great Lakes (Illinois)
 

Description: Harry C. Pepon at Childress Air Force Base in Texas on the day that he received his bombardier wings, July 22, 1944. Pepon was born in Hilliard, Ohio, and served as a bombardier on a B-17 crew stationed in Italy during World War II. His plane was hit by enemy fire on its first mission to bomb a German refinery. The plane went missing and the crew was presumed dead. After the war, debris from the plane was found in Yugoslavia. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07527
Subjects: Soldiers--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio; World War, 1939-1945 - Ohio; Air pilots; Aircraft accidents
Places: Childress Air Force Base (Texas)
 

Description: Photograph of the 48th Annual Reunion of the 17th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, at General William Tecumseh Sherman's Birthplace, Lancaster, Ohio, September 26, 1928. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03362
Subjects: Fairfield County (Ohio); Ohio History--Military Ohio; Veterans; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Lancaster (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the 44th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Band gathered around drums, ca. 1861-1865. The 44th OVI was organized in Springfield, Ohio, and saw action at the Battle of Lewisburg, the Battle of Cumberland Gap and the Siege of Knoxville, among other engagements. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03363
Subjects: Bands (Music)--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Major General William S. Rosecrans from Delaware County, Ohio, ca. 1861-1865. Photograph was made from a negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00542
Subjects: Soldiers--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Delaware County (Ohio); New York (New York)
 

Description: Portrait of William Rhoads who mustered into the 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in Columbus, Ohio on September 12, 1861 for three years service. Rhoads returned to his home in Reynoldsburg, Ohio when his term of service expired in 1864. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00770
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio History--Military Ohio; Soldiers; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: This carte de visite photograph shows Admiral John Adolph Dahlgren (1809-1870). Dahlgren is seen from the shoulders up, wearing a formal frock coat or jacket with shoulder boards on top. This photograph is from from the William T. Sherman Photograph Album, ca. 1865-1880. Admiral Dahlgren is known as the "Father of American naval ordnance" because of the gun and cannon designs he contributed to Union effort during the Civil War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04320
Subjects: United States. Navy--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military officers
 

Description: Carte de visite photograph of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, from the William T. Sherman Photograph Album, ca. 1865-1880. Farragut was born on July 5, 1801, near Nashville, Tennessee. At nine years of age, he was commissioned as a midshipman in the United States Navy, due to the influence of his adoptive father. He was the first Rear Admiral, Vice Admiral and Admiral of the United States Navy. He died at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on August 14, 1870. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04325
Subjects: United States. Navy--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; U.S. Navy; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military officers; Portrait photography