Event Schedule Page

1- Completed. Saturday Jan. 24th, 2009, 1:00pm. 'Company A' annual meeting at the old school house at Camp Dennison. Come and see your pards after a few months in your winter quarters. Say goodbye to Capt. Venner as he steps down after seven years and joins us in the ranks as a private. Welcome Mike Davis as he is promoted to Captain. Vote on our 2009 schedule, and stay for dinner at the School House restaurant.

2 - Completed. Saturday Feb. 21st, 8am - 4pm. Dustoff at the Blue Ash Armory. It's time to check our uniforms and gear; and prepare to break winter-quarters. The staff is working on some interesting activities. Among the items being discussed by the staff- explain how an1864 soldier of the western theatre looked, how to hike up your traps, re-working your leathers, how to pack a haversack and how to wear it. how to pack food/rations, replacing non-correct buttons with paper backed tin buttons, rolling rounds.

3 - Completed. Friday Apr. 24th - Sunday Apr. 26th. Training Camp at Caesar Creek Pioneer Village. Maximum Effort Event. No more winter-quarters! It's time for the brogans to hit the mud, start drilling, practicing our manual of arms and getting ready to meet the rebels for the season - 1864!

4 - Completed. Saturday May 15th - Sunday May 17th. Conner Prairie. Maximum Effort Event. This is a new event for the 6th OVI. We'll be joining Chad Greene and the Western Federal Blues for the event. With the WFB we'll get rations, do 1st person impressions including a pay call. Conner Prairie is located just northeast of Indianapolis and is a premiere living history location worth visiting anytime. Other than when special events occur like this Civil War event it's always 1836 in the village and their re-enactors never break first person. Visit this great location sometime with your family.

5 - Completed. Monday May 25th, 11am - approx 1:30pm. Spring Grove Memorial Day ceremony with the Sons of Union Veterans. Our yearly remembrance at the Civil War section of the cemetery for the olde boys who made the ultimate sacrifice; and our visit & roll call at Col. Anderson's grave site.

6 - Canceled. Friday June 5th - Sunday June 7th. Battlefield trip to Stones River in Murfreesboro Tn. This will be a trip to the site where the 6th Ohio incurred their heaviest causalities of the war. The trip is for Friday through Sunday, but if you wish to visit other sites nearby such as Franklin, Nashville, Ft. Negley then you're encouraged to go down early on Thursday, or stay late through Monday. This trip be in modern civilian clothes. We'll do car pooling like we did for Gettysburg last year. Wives & children are welcome. We hope to get a private battlefield tour on Saturday and participate in a candlelight walk of the national cemetery that night. Look for more details as the time of the event approaches.

7 - Canceled. Date to be determined. Living History at the Taft House. The Taft House, the childhood home of President Wm. H. Taft, is located just south of the Univ. of Cincinnati campus. From the time of his birth in 1857 until he embarked on a political career that would win him the two highest offices in the nation, Taft lived here surrounded by family and what his mother called "inspiration to everything that was good." This was a fun one-day event last year for the 6th OVI, and 2009 should be the same; plus we can use the event for local recruiting.

8 - Completed. Saturday Aug. 22nd - Sunday Aug. 23rd. Living History at Battery Hooper. Battery Hooper, one of the few remaining Civil War defensive positions left in Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati, represents a time when the community came together in a crisis. In September of 1862 the battery was erected as part of an eight-mile defensive line from Ludlow to Fort Thomas to defend against the Confederate invasion of Kentucky. This living history event in 2008 was small but fun. There was plenty of opportunity to visit with the public and this should be another good event for local recruiting.

9 - Completed. Friday Sept. 18th - Sunday Sept. 20th. Zoar Village- Battle on the Ohio-Erie Canal. Maximum Effort Event. This is another new event for the 6th OVI. Zoar is located south of Canton Ohio. The event will have a battle each day. On Saturday after the battle there is a Period wedding and Ball. On Sunday before the battle is a Rounders game.

Completed. Non official event- Saturday May 2th and Sunday May 3rd. Ohio Civil War Collectors Show. Saturday 9 am - 5 pm, Sunday 9 am - 3 pm. Go on your own or with a group of guys from the unit. See and buy collectibles, books, get parts for your gun, etc. The show is at Richland County Fairgrounds in Mansfield, Ohio. Admission $5.

Completed. Non official event- Friday May 1st. Living history at Ockerman Middle School. This school program was suggested by Cpl. Tim Pieper. Ockerman school is located on US Hwy 42 in Florence KY. From I-75 south take exit180. Go south. The school is on the right side after approx. 1 & 1/2 miles. Camping with fire pits is allowed the night before. The program will begin as soon as the buses arrive at 7:00 AM. Anything program items we can do will be OK. Contact Tim Pieper for more details.

10 - Completed Friday Oct. 2nd - Sunday Oct 4th. Perryville. Maximum Effort Event. This was an excellent event last year when we fell in with the Western Federal Blues. We had excellent food, a pay call, period Sunday services and more. This year's event looks to be just as good. Perhaps we'll get another moonlight tour of the battlefield on Saturday evening.

Completed. Non Official event. Saturday Apr. 4th. Perryville Clean Up Day. Come out to our adopted battlefield and spend the day cleaning it up and restoring a portion back to it's 1862 state of condition. See pictures.

Above is the registration info for Perryville. Please complete this registration as soon as possible and let Capt Davis know when you have done so! It is only $5.00 to register until July 31. On the form note that you are with the 6th Ohio and attending with the Western Federal Blues; so please write Western Federal Blues across the top of the registration info. 2009 Perryville Page.

Above is the link to register for the Zoar event in September. If you are attending please complete and send the form in as soon as you can, noting that you will be with the 6th Ohio and Army of the Ohio . Please let Capt. Davis know when you have registered.

Completed.. Road Trip- Sunday July 19th. Tour of Spring Grove Cemetery to visit some of the grave sites of members of the original 6th OVI. The tour will be by our member Kevin 'Rufus' Guy.

Completed.. Road Trip- Friday July 24 and Saturday July25. Living history event in Woodstock Ohio. To help raise money for a new roof on an old semi-abandoned church to help protect the church's Civil War strained glass window. Also ceremony to honor a Civil War Medal of Honor winner in the local cemetery.