More about Portage County and the Civil War
*Medicine in the Civil War: Primitive and Painful
*Four Portage County African-Americans honored with monuments, markers
*County residents among the witnesses to Lincoln’s assassination
*Three Portage County soldiers received a Medal of Honor
*Persistent Patriot: Samuel H. Cole of Franklin Mills enlisted in the Union military four times
*Three Portage County brothers fight for the Union but only one survives
*Changing sides: John Thomas chooses the North
*Portage County residents were not in total agreement over the draft system
*Coverage differed among Portage County’s newspapers during the Civil War
*Two poets interpret the Civil War and its impact on their Portage County neighbors
*Portage County soldiers detested anti-war factions
*James A. Garfield: Portage County’s most famous Civil War officer
*Portage County’s Buel Whitney provides spiritual counsel to those on the battlefield
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