Buffington Island
Battlefield Preservation Foundation

In the decades immediately following the Civil War, a massive national movement sought to permanently mark and sacralize the disparate landscapes where American blood had been shed. The memorialization phase for Buffington Island gained significant momentum in the late 1920s and early 1930s, as aging veterans sought to institutionalize their legacy. After the battle, the landscape had largely reverted to agricultural farmland and remained as such for nearly seventy years unti

While not part of the 1863 Indiana-Ohio Raid, the Jenkins' Raid in September 1862 was the first Confederate invasion of Ohio soil, and...

After a long delay, members of the Western Theater in the Civil War Facebook group stepped up and donated enough money to create 1,000...

Why is preserving the Buffington Island battlefield important? Beyond the obvious prevention of destruction of the ground in the name of...

We are working on another driving brochure, one that covers the sixty miles from Berlin Crossroads and the action that took place there...

We are often asked about visiting the Buffington Island battlefield, so we thought we would put together a "visitor's guide" of sorts to...