Buffington Island
Battlefield Preservation Foundation

"Mrs. Clara Pomeroy Horton Pope, wife of General John Pope, died at the residence of her husband, in St. Louis, in her fifty-third year."...

Captain John O'Neill One of the units pursuing John H. Morgan and his command was the Fifth Indiana Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. Organized...

Courtesy hmdb.org I’ve always enjoyed the story beyond the story, meaning the more obscure facets of our history, particularly when it...

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...

Taylor Bishop is a member of the Tebbs Bend Battlefield Association, served as a member on the American Battlefield Trust's Youth...

Why is preserving the Buffington Island battlefield important? Beyond the obvious prevention of destruction of the ground in the name of...

George W. Cassell, a resident of central Kentucky, enlisted as a sergeant in the Confederate States Army on September 10th, 1862 in...

One of the Foundation's members, Carl Clink, might have a direct connection to the battle that took place in the early morning of July...

There are several cemeteries in what is known as the Portland Bottoms, the flat area over which the Battle of Buffington Island took...

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

From the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, Volume XX, 1911: AN ACCOUNT BY MORGAN'S CAPTOR, MAJOR GEORGE W. RUE. On September...