Buffington Island
Battlefield Preservation Foundation

Most accounts one reads about John H. Morgan's Indiana-Ohio Raid will mention that Morgan's command included four artillery pieces - two 3-inch Parrott rifles (also known as 10-pounder Parrotts) and a pair of 12-pounder howitzers, However, the 3-inch version of the Parrott was not manufactured until later in the war and the pair that Morgan had, captured from the Thirteenth Indiana Battery at the Battle of Hartsville, were actually earlier model 2.9-inch Parrotts. By the time

Confederate Brigadier General John H. Morgan’s 1,930 men are awakened from their disturbed slumber around 3:00 am. A thick fog had...

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...

When one hears about the Buffington Island battle, we often hear about John H. Morgan and the Confederate point of view, but we rarely...

When one hears about the Buffington Island battle, we often hear about John H. Morgan and the Confederate point of view, but we rarely...

When one hears about the Buffington Island battle, we often hear about John H. Morgan and the Confederate point of view, but we rarely...

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

When one hears about the Buffington Island battle, we often hear about John H. Morgan and the Confederate point of view, but we rarely...

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

Just one quarter mile south of the Battle of Richmond Visitor's Center in Madison County, Kentucky lies the Blue Grass Memorial Cemetery....

Where I sit in Ohio the heat and humidity have hit some all time highs, and I think about the summers of 1862 and 1863 and the droughts...