Any Statehouse worth its salt should have a few monuments, and the Ohio Statehouse fills that bill. One area of the rotunda includes a marble commemoration of the Union victory at Vicksburg — complete with identification of the victorious Union generals and the defeated Confederate generals who were involved — topped with a marble bust of Lincoln. The inscription reads: “Care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphans.”
At the Statehouse, Civil War artifacts and remembrances are never far away.
