“The Adventures of Louis and Clark: The Lives and Civil War Careers of Louis Mullich and John Clark, Two Civil War Privates from Northern Kentucky.”

Richard McCormick has published CivilWarObsession.com since 2009. He is a volunteer and serves as Secretary and Acquisitions Director of the Board of Directors of the Campbell County Historical and Genealogical Society. He has also volunteered and served on the boards of the James A. Ramage Civil War Museum and the Cynthiana Battlefields Foundation in the recent past. McCormick has been a member of groups such as the American Battlefields Trust, the Friends of Perryville Battlefield, and the Abraham Lincoln Association. His current research is to find names and information about Civil War soldiers and sailors from his home of Campbell County, Kentucky.

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Augusta has so much to offer - restaurants, shops, views of the majestic Ohio River. Come make it a day in Augusta!

During the American Civil War, Cincinnati played a crucial role in preserving the United States. Not only was the city the North’s most populous in the West, but also it was the nation’s third most productive manufacturing center. The Queen City of the West served as a key provider of the Union's soldiers, weapons, supplies, medical aid, and political influencers. In this presentation, Cincinnati historian David L. Mowery will reveal some of the Queen City's key structures, such as military installations, hospitals, churches, businesses, and private homes, in the way they appeared at the time of the Civil War. Simultaneously, he will show how those same buildings look today. Come join David as he gives the highlights of Cincinnati's impact on the outcome of the Civil War through a visual comparison of the past with the present.

David L. Mowery is a native resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. American military history piqued his interest at an early age. Since childhood, he has researched and visited over seven hundred battlefields across fifty states and nine countries. In 2001, David joined the all-volunteer Ohio Civil War Trail Commission as its Hamilton County representative, but over the years his role expanded to include the final design and historical validation of the entire length of the John Hunt Morgan Heritage Trail of Ohio. He is the coauthor of Morgan’s Raid Across Ohio: The Civil War Guidebook of the John Hunt Morgan Heritage Trail (Ohio Historical Society, 2014) and the author of Morgan’s Great Raid: The Remarkable Expedition from Kentucky to Ohio (History Press, 2013) and Cincinnati in the Civil War: The Union's Queen City (History Press, 2021). Since 1995, David has been a member of the Cincinnati Civil War Round Table, for which he has written various papers on Civil War subjects and has led many Civil War tours of the Cincinnati region. He has also served with the Buffington Island Battlefield Preservation Foundation, the grass-roots organization working to preserve Ohio’s largest Civil War battlefield.

No admission, but we will be accepting donations to help cover costs.

Augusta has so much to offer - restaurants, shops, views of the majestic Ohio River. Come make it a day in Augusta!

Come join us for our Speaker Series held at the Clooney Community Center. Join us to hear our own Amy Withrow talk about Women in the Civil War. We are sure you may learn a thing or two along the way!

Amy is currently a graduate student in the Public History program at Northern Kentucky University and the Directors Assistant and Event Coordinator at Dinsmore Homestead in Burlington, Kentucky. Actively involved with Civil War Augusta committee and the annual Civil War Weekend event in Augusta. She has a passion for American history especially in the Colonial/Early American and Antebellum/Civil War Amy Resides in Burlington Kentucky with her husband of 22 years, Robert and her three spoiled four-legged kids.

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Cincinnati historian Chris Burns will present his talk during the Civil War weekend event.

Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant knew each other personally for only 13 months before Lincoln was assassinated. But in that perilous time, the nation’s soul and future was at stake. The two westerners thought alike, both matured greatly and fervently enjoyed each other’s company. This story unveils that alliance, which forged a friendship and eventually won the war.

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Come make it a day in Augusta!

It’s back! Our Speaker Series makes its return to the Clooney Community Center. Join us to hear Cincinnati Civil War author David Mowery talk about "Morgan's Great Raid" of 1863!

Donations accepted to help cover speaker costs.

Come make it a day in Augusta!

Mark Edward Howard will give us a talk on Jesse Durbin Ward, colonel of the 17th Ohio Infantry, who was born in Augusta.

Make it a day in Augusta - have brunch at the Beehive, or lunch at The General Store, or dinner at the Pub. Check out the shops along Main Street. Enjoy the river views from shore or ferry!

No admission, but we will be accepting donations to help cover costs.

CANCELED DUE TO COVID

This is now canceled until the future.

Cincinnatian and John H. Morgan author David Mowery will be our speaker. He will speak on Morgan's Great Raid of 1863.

Make it a day in Augusta - have brunch at the Beehive, or lunch at The General Store, or dinner at the Pub. Check out the shops along Main Street. Enjoy the river views from shore or ferry!

No admission, but we will be accepting donations to help cover costs.

This has been postponed at this time.

Our own Amy Withrow will speak about the important roles that women played, both at home at and the front, during the Civil War. We are moving the John H. Morgan talk to a later date.

Make it a day in Augusta - have brunch at the Beehive, or lunch at The General Store, or dinner at the Pub. Check out the shops along Main Street. Enjoy the river views from shore or ferry!

No admission, but we will be accepting donations to help cover costs.

Greg Roberts of the U.S. Grant Birthplace will be providing a talk on Grant.

Make it a day in Augusta - have brunch at the Beehive, or lunch at The General Store, or dinner at the Pub. Check out the shops along Main Street. Enjoy the river views from shore or ferry!

No admission, but we will be accepting donations to help cover costs.

CHANGE! Our speaker for this Saturday has the flu, so we will have Phil Seyfrit from the Battle of Richmond group giving us TWO shorter talks…one on the Battle of Richmond and the other on the assassination of William “Bull” Nelson.

Make it a day in Augusta - have brunch at the Beehive, or lunch at The General Store, or dinner at the Pub. Check out the shops along Main Street. Enjoy the river views from shore or ferry!

No admission, but we will be accepting donations to help cover costs.

Join Augusta in the Civil War as we host the first of our occasional Speaker Series. We kick off with Chris Burns, a historian from Cincinnati. Chris will speak about President Grant’s commitment to equality and how he attended to African-Americans, Native Americans, and the Jewish population during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

We are working with the Rotary Club as part of their Heritage Days Festival.

No admission, but we will be accepting donations to help cover costs.