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The Civil War in Ohio
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Clement Vallandigham
| April 7, 1788 | City of Marietta founded, making it the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territories | Ohio |
| March 23, 1818 | Don Carlos Buell born near Marietta, Ohio | Ohio |
| Don Carlos Buell | ||
| April 27, 1822 | Hiram Ulysses Grant (General Ulysses S. Grant) born, Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio | Ohio |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ||
| January 17, 1824 | A plan for the gradual emancipation of slaves, approved by the Ohio legislature, is sent to all the states. | Ohio |
| January 1, 1836 | James Birney begins publishing The Philanthropist, an abolition newspaper named for an earlier abolition newspaper for which Birney had written. The paper was published in Cincinnati, across the Ohio River from Kentucky, a slave state | Ohio |
| James Birney | ||
| July 12, 1836 | The printing press used to publish The Philanthropist is destroyed by anti-abolitionists in Cincinnati | Ohio |
| James Birney | ||
| July 30, 1836 | Mob destroys The Philanthropist 's printing press in Cincinnati for a second time | Ohio |
| James Birney | ||
| April 24, 1842 | John Van Zandt conceals 9 slaves from Boone County, Kentucky who crossed the Ohio River in his wagon and takes them to his farm where he frees them | Ohio |
| Jones v. Van Zandt | ||
| June 21, 1848 | The Ohio Mass Free Territory Convention dissolves the Liberty Party and agrees to join a Freesoil Convention in Buffalo. | Ohio |
| Election of 1848 | ||
| April 23, 1861 | George McClellan appointed Major General of the Ohio militia | Ohio |
| George McClellan | ||
| May 13, 1861 | George McClellan [US] appointed Commander, Department of Ohio. The following day he is promoted major general, his rank in the Ohio militia. Only General-in-Chief Winfield Scott held a higher rank | Ohio |
| George McClellan | ||
| Army of the Ohio | ||
| December 9, 1861 | Clement Vallandigham sends a resolution to Abraham Lincoln, asking for "all proclamations, or orders... relating to the pending contest" | Ohio |
| Clement Vallandigham | ||
| Abraham Lincoln | ||
| December 13, 1861 | In a cabinet meeting, Lincoln and Seward discuss Ohio Representative Clement Vallandigham. | Ohio |
| Clement Vallandigham | ||
| July 30, 1862 | The term Copperhead is used for the first time in writing by the Cincinnati Gazette. It was used to indicate people who would not admit they were Southern sympathizers, and "peace at any price" Democrats. People who did admit Southern sympathies were called "dough-heads." The paper used the term when refering to members of the Indiana Democratic Convention | Ohio Indiana |
| copperhead | ||
| May 5, 1863 | Former representative and a leader of the Peace Democrats, Clemont Vallandigham is arrested by the federal army. | Ohio |
| Clement Vallandigham | ||
| May 16, 1863 | Judge H. H. Leavitt denies a motion for habeas corpus in the Vallandigham case | Ohio |
| Clement Vallandigham | ||
| May 25, 1863 | Clement Vallandigham is banished to the Confederacy for his "pro-Confederate remarks." The exchange took place at Murfreesboro, Tennessee | Ohio Tennessee |
| Clement Vallandigham | ||
| July 19, 1863 | While crossing the Ohio River into Kentucky at Buffington Island, John Hunt Morgan's raiders stumble onto a fortified position. Federals manage to kill or wound 120 and capture 700 men and most of the rest return to Ohio to find an alternate crossing. | Ohio Kentucky |
| John Hunt Morgan | ||
| July 26, 1863 | John Hunt Morgan is captured at New Lisbon, Ohio. Most of his command had already been apprehended | Ohio |
| John Hunt Morgan | ||
| October 13, 1863 | Peace Democrat Clement Vallandigham is defeated by Unionist John Brough, a war Democrat running on the Republican ticket. | Ohio |
| Clement Vallandigham | ||
| May 31, 1864 | A small convention in Cleveland of Republican abolitionists unhappy with Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and other things, nominates John C. Fremont for president. | Ohio |
| John C. Fremont | ||
| Election of 1864 | ||
| Republican Party | ||
| January 4, 1867 | Ohio ratifies the 14th Amendment | Ohio |
| 14th Amendment | ||
| January 15, 1868 | Ohio rescinds its ratification of the 14th Amendment when the Peace Democrats gain control of the legislature. The Federal government refuses to recognize the action and counts Ohio as for ratification | Ohio |
| 14th Amendment | ||
| Democratic Party | ||
| June 14, 1876 June 16, 1876 |
The three-day Republican Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio (Hayes home state) shifted its support from front runner James Blaine to Rutherford B. Hayes on the second ballot. | Ohio |
| Election of 1876 | ||
| Rutherford B. Hayes | ||
| Republican Party | ||
| September 17, 2003 | Ohio votes to ratify the 14th Amendment | Ohio |
| 14th Amendment |
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