{"id":205593,"date":"2026-05-06T21:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205593"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:16:44","slug":"civil-war-era-to-be-discussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/06\/civil-war-era-to-be-discussed\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War era to be discussed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Brumback Library and the Van Wert County Historical Society Genealogy Club will meet from 5:30-7 p.m. on Tuesday May 12, on the second floor of the library. There will be a special America 250\u00a0 presentation by Harrison Frech, \u201cVan Wert County in the Civil War.\u201d It will cover the raising of local\u00a0units\u00a0to fight, local news coverage, support for the war and dissent\u00a0which was sometimes\u00a0violent.\u00a0How Van Wert County\u00a0African American\u00a0men\u00a0served\u00a0to end slavery and save the Union.\u00a0 Harrison will then tie in how local resources from the library and museum were used in his research.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information The Brumback Library and the Van Wert County Historical Society Genealogy Club will meet from 5:30-7 p.m. on Tuesday May 12, on the second floor of the library. There will be a special America 250\u00a0 presentation by Harrison Frech, \u201cVan Wert County in the Civil War.\u201d It will cover the raising of local\u00a0units\u00a0to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-14 06:57:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205594,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205593\/revisions\/205594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}