BURTON, Ohio — By 1864, the Union was bone‑tired. Three years of war had emptied farmsteads and factory floors, regiments had been massacred and amassed and massacred again, and disease killed more men than enemy fire. Families were sending their second and third sons to the front, and still the Confederacy clung to its vision of a slaveholding republic, gambling it could outlast the North’s will to fight. At Century Village Museum’s May 25–26 …
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