The American Civil War Museum of Ohio

We seemed to have missed a day in blog reporting, it’s because we were either too busy or we didn’t do anything.  Wednesday, we didn’t do anything news worthy, we drove an hour to Toledo,Ohio, had lunch and visited Costco for a shopping trip.  Anne-Marie and I needed a day off from touring, and the information overload from historical museums.

We traveled and hour south of Sandusky, Ohio, to the town of Tiffin to visit two museums, The Tiffin Glass Museum, and The American Civil War Museum of Ohio located in the old Tiffin Post Office Building.

The collection of artifacts in the museum were primarily from a single collector, and they could have fit in a single room.  The museum’s goal is intended to show Ohio’s involvement in the Civil War.  The cannon balls on the right are filled with shot, and had a range on nearly a mile.  and the cannon ball on the left had a range of over a mile.

There were flags displayed, showing the evolution of both sides flags before, during, and after the war.  The south changed their flag, several times, to lesson confusion during battles.  The flags on the left show three early versions before the final flag that we associate with the rebels of the south.  On the right, the flag of the north, is a genuine artifact, and this is one of the several times a day, that I wish that I had paid more attention, I just can’t remember the history of this one.

There was a exhibit of the roles of the field surgeons.  The sign describes early ways of relieving the pressure from a head injury, and a surgery kit.  The sign states that the success rate was only 50%, and they developed other methods.

The large pistol is a sawed off, and cut down musket, and was carried by a contractor at Johnson’s Island Prison.  The Wide picture shows some of the display area.

There is a lot of room in the Museum for more collections, and some of the rooms had only signs and pictures on the walls,with a few small display tables.

Anne-Marie and I both came away numb and overloaded with Civil War information.  The Northwest States were not impacted as much by the Civil War, as the Mid-Western and Eastern States, and we haven’t been exposed to this type of history before.