It's safe to say most people around our coverage area know about the Battle of Gettysburg. And yet, with all the interest in the battle itself, people tend to forget (or not know at all) that the three days at Gettysburg were just the culmination of a campaign that took the better part of a month, and would take several more weeks after the battle to finish.
The Civil War monument on the square in downtown Wooster was erected in 1892 the same year the Experiment Station (today s Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center) was moved from Columbus to Wooster. The monument was officially dedicated on May 5 of that year before a crowd of 10,000.