Description: Illustration published in 'A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant' by Albert Deane Richardson in 1885. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04571
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States
 

Description: Illustration of McGregor Cottage published in "A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant" by Albert Deane Richardson in 1885. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. The cottage in McGregor, New York, is where Grant finished his memoirs and passed away due to lung cancer in 1885. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04572
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Houses
Places: Mount McGregor (New York)
 

Description: Illustration of Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant clinging to his horse published in "A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant" by Albert Deane Richardson in 1885. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04573
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States
 

Description: Photograph of Aaron R. Fisher receiving an award for fifty years of continuous service in the Armed Forces. Aaron R. Fisher was a highly decorated African American soldier during and after World War I; he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Croix de Guerre, Purple Heart, Mexican Service Medal, World War I Victory Medal and Army Commendation Medal for his services. After his discharge, he served as an ROTC instructor at Wilberforce University. He retired as a Chief Warrant Officer in 1947. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS9_B01F13_B
Subjects: African American men; World War I, 1914-1918; African American soldiers; Wilberforce University; Military officers; Awards; Medals
 

Description: Major General Edwin Stanton McCook, 1837-1873, carte-de-visite. He was born on March 26, 1837 in Carrolton, Ohio. Edwin McCook was a member of the Fighting McCook family. He was a general in the Union Army. After the war, he became acting governor of the Dakota Territory, where he was assassinated in office on September 11, 1873. He was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio along with several of his family members. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08422
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; McCook family; Portrait photography
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a silk guidon of 1st Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery Regiment, Battery A. This is a machine sewn swallowtail guidon with crossed cannons and embroidered gold lettering which reads "Ohio. A." against a red field. Reformed in 1886, Battery A stationed on civil duties in Cleveland (fires, disasters, and labor disputes) until 1898. Redesignated 1st Battalion, O.V.L.A., the unit was activated for Spanish-American War service (1898, did not see combat) and for Mexican border duty (1916-17). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02191
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; Flags--Ohio, Spanish American War 1898; 1st Regiment, Battery A, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery; Statehouse--Ohio;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio), Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: John James McCook, 1845-1911, carte-de-visite. Son of Daniel and Martha McCook. John J. McCook was born in Carrollton, Ohio on May 25, 1845. He was a student at Kenyon College when the Civil War broke out. He left college after one year and join the Union Army. He was wounded in the spring of 1864 and was not able to return to fighting. He graduated from Kenyon College in 1866 became a lawyer. He was married to Janetta Waddell Alexander. He died on September 17, 1911 and was buried in Princeton Cemetery in New Jersey. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08423
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; McCook family; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a swallowtail guidon of 1st Ohio Light Artillery Regiment, Battery C, U.S. Volunteers. This swallowtail flag, with gold text reading "Ohio C" and crossed cannons is on a red field. The O.V.L.A. mustered in for war with Spain May 11, 1898 out of Zanesville, Ohio. Overall 20 officers and 708 enlisted men were commanded by Major Charles T. Atwell at Chickamauga, Georgia (also a Civil War site) with the loss of 13 soldiers. Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when the state formed a committee to oversee the efforts to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display on the Plaza Level of the Ohio Historical Society from 1970 until 1989. For conservation reasons, the flags have been in storage since 1989. In the 1960s, the collection was photographed and commercial artist Robert Needham painted illustrations of many Civil War flags. Photographs of the flags and the paintings are now part of the society's archival collections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02192
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; Spanish-American War, 1898; 1st Regiment, Battery C, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery; Statehouse--Ohio;
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dr. John McCook, 1806-1865. Dr McCook was born in 1806 in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the medical school at Jefferson College. When the Civil War broke out, he volunteered as a surgeon. His five sons were also in the war along with his brother and nine nephews. He died shortly after the was was over, on October 11, 1865 at the headquarters of his son, General Anson G. McCook, in Washington D. C. He was buried in Union Cemetery in Steubenville, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08424
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; McCook family; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Edward M. McCook, 1833-1909, carte-de-visite. Son of John McCook. His father, four brothers, his uncle and 10 first cousins fought in the American Civil War on the Union side. He was also a lawyer, politician, American diplomat and Governor of the Territory of Colorado. He was born on June 15, 1833 in Steubenville, Ohio and died on September 9, 1909 in Chicago, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08425
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; McCook family; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: San Francisco (California)
 

Description: Richard W. Brettell of Shreveport, Louisiana, donated this flag in 1958. Swallowtail guidon was used by the 135th Field Artillery Regiment, Battery B (part of the 37th "Buckeye" Division) during World War I. The wool flag is red and white and displays crossed cannons. Correspondence about donation: Ohio Historical Society Archives, Bill Keener, Box 1, Series I, Folder 3 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65516_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; Flags--Ohio; World War, 1914-1918; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 37th; Guidon; Textile--wool
Places: Shreveport, Louisiana
 

Description: Rev. Henry C. McCook, carte-de-visite, 1837-1911, son of John McCook. Henry McCook was one of the members of the family known as the "Fighting McCook's" with 17 members serving on the Union side of the American Civil War. He was a Presbyterian minister and served as Chaplain with the rank of First Lieutenant. After the war, he returned to the ministry, was a naturalise and an auther on religion, history and nature. He was born on Junl 3, 1837 in Lisbon, Ohio and died on October 31, 1911 in Philadelphia. He was buried in Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08426
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; McCook family; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)