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This West Richfield branch of Oviatts attended the Baptist Church (now Fellowship Hall) and sent two young men, to fight in the Civil War. Both died in service. Thirteen other members of the extended Oviatt Family served from Summit and Cuyahoga Coun ties.
Just two years after the raid (which has often been called the first battle of the Civil War) The War Between the States was declared. As listed in the1892 History of Summit County, "Richfield did her whole duty, furnishing, in all, 150 men for the Union army.
This landmark series of sixteen volumes—written by some of today’s most respected Civil War historians—covers the War from the earliest rumblings of disunion through to its devastating conclusion and Reconstruction.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Jefferson Davis
- Robert E. Lee
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Frederick Douglass
- Stonewall Jackson
- Clara Barton
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Jubal Early
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 16th President of the United States from 1861 to 1865. Lincoln led the country through the American Civil War, maintaining the Union, eliminating slavery, strengthening the federal government, and modernizing the American economy. Lincoln wa...
Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who led the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865. Before the American Civil War, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served as the United States Secretary of...
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general who served as the overall commander of the Confederate States Army at the conclusion of the American Civil War. From 1862 until 1865, he headed the Force of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy’s most formidable army, acquiring a reputation as a superb strategist. Lee w...
Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American military commander and politician who served as the country’s 18th president from 1869 to 1877. He led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War as Commanding General in 1865, and then briefly served as Secretary of War. Later, as president, Grant was a successful civil rig...
Frederick Douglass (February 20, 1895 – c. February 1817) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and politician who was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. He became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York after escaping from slavery in Maryland, becoming recognized for his oratory...
Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson(January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general and one of the most well-known Confederate commanders after Robert E. Lee. Until his death, he was involved in practically all military engagements in the Eastern Theater of the war, and he was instrumental in winning several critical battles of the Civil...
Clara Barton(December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was a nurse and the founder of the American Red Cross. During the American Civil War, she worked as a hospital nurse, a teacher, and a patent clerk. She offered self-taught nursing care since nursing education was not highly institutionalized at the time and she did not attend nursing school. Barton ...
William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was a soldier, businessman, educator, and author from the United States. During the American Civil War (1861–1865), he served as a general in the Union Army, earning respect for his grasp of military strategy as well as condemnation for the brutality of the scorched-earth policy he ena...
Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a Confederate Army commander during the American Civil War and the Ku Klux Klan’s first Grand Wizard from 1867 to 1869. Forrest earned considerable riches before to the war as a cotton plantation owner, horse and cattle dealer, real estate broker, and slave trader. He joined the Confeder...
Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a Virginia lawyer and politician who rose through the ranks of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Early, who attended the United States Military Academy, resigned his U.S. Army commission after the Second Seminole War and his Virginia military appointment after the Mexican-Amer...
Nov 12, 2013 · Fact #1: The Civil War was fought between the Northern and the Southern states from 1861-1865. The American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861.
- The Civil War, also known as “The War Between the States,” was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a...
- Abraham Lincoln grew up in a log cabin in Kentucky. He worked as a shopkeeper and a lawyer before entering politics in the 1840s. Alarmed by his an...
- Native Americans have lived in North America for more than 12,000 years. Around 400 years ago, people from the Netherlands, England, Spain, and Fra...
- Slavery was the law of the land, north and south, until the early 19th century. It was concentrated in the southern states, where slaves were used...
- When the southern states seceded from the Union, there were still a few forts on southern soil that were manned by United States soldiers. Rather t...
- At the beginning of the Civil War, 22 million people lived in the North and 9 million people (4 million of whom were slaves) lived in the South. Th...
- The Civil War devastated the Confederate states. The presence of vast armies throughout the countryside meant that livestock, crops, and other stap...
- After four years of conflict, the last major Confederate armies surrendered to the United States in April of 1865. The war bankrupted the South, le...
- The southern states seceded to prevent the abolition of slavery. During the war, Abraham Lincoln freed some slaves and allowed freedmen to join the...
- The United States government has identified 384 battles that had a significant impact on the larger war. Many of these battlefields have been devel...
The last significant battles raged around the ten-month Siege of Petersburg, gateway to the Confederate capital of Richmond. The Confederates abandoned Richmond, and on April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant following the Battle of Appomattox Court House, setting in motion the end of the war.
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Oct 15, 2009 · The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion.
