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 Morgan reached...

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...