Category: Buffington Island

  • Rain and the Battlefield

    150th Commemoration, Battle of Buffington Island Portland, OH July 20-21, 2013 Our camp, with us preparing to drill. Courtesy Martin Unrue. Friday night arrival through torrential downpours revealed an empty park where the event was held.  We set up camp in a back corner. Buffington Island is Ohio’s only Civil War battlefield, and this was…