Attack at Deep Cut

Second Battle of Manassas

Full-throated cheers greeted the order to attack. More than 6,000 Union soldiers under General Fitz John Porter poured across the road into the fields of Lucinda Dogan's farm. As the blue-clad lines traversed the open ground, a ...

National Historic Landmark-Miami and Erie Canal Deep Cut

National Historic Landmark- Miami and Erie Canal Deep Cut

Begun in 1825, the Miami and Erie Canal was one of Ohio's two major artificial waterways. It stretched from Cincinnati to Toledo, by way of Dayton; the canal brought settlers into ...

Deep Cut

Porter's Attack

Before the attack, soldiers massed in the woods behind the present day road - 10,000 men under Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter. This would be the major Union attack of Second Manassas. At 3 p.m., a lieutenant in Berdan's ...

Deep Cut at the Licking Summit / Millersport and the Ohio-Erie C

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Deep Cut at the Licking Summit

Digging of the Ohio-Erie Canal began in 1825, and the first canal boat navigated the Deep Cut at Licking Summit in 1831. The surrounding swamps were drained to create the Licking Reservoir, today known ...

Miami and Erie Canal Deep Cut / Miami and Erie Canal

Anthony Wayne Parkway

Miami & Erie Canal, Deep Cut

You are on that section of the Miami and Erie Canal where the greatest excavation was made – a section that has been known over the years as “Deep Cut.” The ...