Robert's Senior Project- 9

I will take a little detour with this blog to talk about one of the things I did to prepare for my project. Over spring break I visited the meeting center/museum for the 103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry in Sheffield Lake. This is a different unit than what I am studying, but the two units followed each other very closely in the War. Basically the 103rd was the infantry and the 19th was the artillery that backed them up. It was a very extensive museum, with a lot of artifacts from actual members of the unit. They had things like peoples uniforms, guns, swords, bugles, and so on. There was even an recreation of a soldiers quarters. This visit was useful because it gave me a perspective on the kinds of things Civil War soldiers had with them. It was fun to be so close to all of those artifacts. The 103rd was a very close nit group, and to this day every year there is a reunion for descendants of the unit. The picture is of a map which shows the route taken by the 103rd in the war. It is a little different for the 19th, but you can get a general sense of where they were during the war.