[OPLINLIST] Ohio Civil War Newspapers Now Available on Chronicling America

[Janet Ingraham Dwyer]

Sharing on behalf of Ohio Civil War 150, a project of the Ohio
Historical Society, in collaboration with the Center for Public History
+ Digital Humanities at the Cleveland State University Department of
History.  For more information, see http://www.ohiocivilwar150.org/.  

 

 

Ohio Civil War Newspapers Now Available on Chronicling America

By Kristina Kuehling

http://www.ohiocivilwar150.org/2011/12/ohio-civil-war-newspapers-now-ava
ilable-on-chronicling-america/

 

On November 7, 1861, Ohioan General Ulysses S. Grant led Union troops in
the Battle of Belmont (in Missouri) against the forces of Confederate
General Leonidas Polk. According to the Warren Western Reserve
Chronicle, "this was one of the hardest fought battles in the West, the
total force on the Union side was about 3,500, all Illinois troops
except one Iowa regiment." The "terrible struggle...lasted from 11
o'clock in the morning until sundown." This early Civil War battle, to
some considered a victory for the North and to others one for the South,
was Grant's first, showcasing his talent as a military leader and
helping to propel him into the public eye where he would soon become a
national hero.

 

During the Civil War, reports like this were common as newspapers
regularly printed news from the warfront, keeping those who remained at
home informed about what their family, friends and neighbors were
experiencing on the battlefield. With the Ohio Historical Society's
<http://www.ohiohistory.org/> latest contribution to the National
Digital Newspaper Program <http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/>  and Chronicling
America <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/> , these and other stories
are now easier than ever to access. Issues from the following Ohio
papers are now online and keyword searchable at Chronicling America:

 

*	Anti-Slavery Bugle (New-Lisbon & Salem) from 1845 to 1861
<http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83035487/issues/> 
*	Conservative (McConnelsville) from 1866 to 1871
<http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87075001/issues/> 
*	South-eastern Independent (McConnelsville) from 1871
<http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87075000/issues/> 
*	Western Reserve Chronicle and Weekly Transcript of the Times
(Warren) from 1855
<http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028384/issues/> 
*	Western Reserve Chronicle (Warren) from 1855 to 1873
<http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028385/issues/> 
*	 

These papers are the first Civil War era titles from Ohio to be
digitized for Chronicling America. They join over 500 newspapers -
that's more than four million pages! - from all over the nation,
including 14 others from Ohio
<http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/ohio/> , to chronicle
United States' history from 1836 to 1922.

 

Over the coming months, even more of Ohio's Civil War newspapers will
become digitized and available on Chronicling America through the
National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio
<http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/ondp/index.php?title=Main_Page> .

 

The National Digital Newspaper Program is a partnership between National
Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress and state projects
to provide enhanced access to United States newspapers published between
1836 and 1922. NEH awards support state projects to select and digitize
historically significant titles that are aggregated and permanently
maintained by the Library of Congress. As part of the project, the Ohio
Historical Society contributed 100,000 newspaper pages to the project
over a two year period ending June 2010 and will contribute an
additional 100,000 pages by the end of August 2012.

 

 

Janet Ingraham Dwyer 
Library Consultant 
State Library of Ohio 
jdwyer at library.ohio.gov <mailto:jdwyer at library.ohio.gov>  

614.644.6910 
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