Portage County doctors and nurses saved lives on and off the battlefield
Portage County doctors and nurses played a crucial role in saving thousands of lives of Union soldiers. They may have worked in hospitals or on the battlefield, but they all witnessed the horrors of war.
Four Portage County African-Americans honored with monuments, markers
In Portage County the slavery debate was no less heated than in the rest of the country. Some African-Americans found the freedom and happiness they longed for, while others left the county because of never-ending discrimination.
County residents among the witnesses to Lincoln’s assassination
On April 14, 1865, as the Civil War was coming to a close, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth during a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. Dr. John Morris, his brother Julius and William Broadhurst, all from Kent, Ohio, were present the night the president fell.
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