Traveling Through Time With the Shelby County Historical Society

Civil War

By 1861, a number of early Shelby County, Ohio residents had either served in the War of 1812, the War with Mexico in 1848, or knew someone who had.  These men were fiercely patriotic.   Ultimately, hundreds of thousands would lose their lives in America's Civil War.   Learn what led to the conflict and its impact on those who participated in the long bitter struggle between the North and the South.  The time period is in the early 1860s.  Return to Archives Home Page

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