Battery L at the Battle of Gettysburg -- Robert Dafford's Civil War Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

ID: 709 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: Robert Dafford ~ Date: 2022

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Battery L at the Battle of Gettysburg -- Robert Dafford's Civil War Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

Robert Dafford’s Underground Railroad mural is imbedded in a larger work depicting a scene at the Battle of Gettysburg, where Portsmouth’s own Battery L helped secure the Union’s greatest victory, turning the tide of the Civil War.

This file appears in: “The Crossing”: Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

“The Crossing”: Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

Hidden away in plain sight, like the operations of the Underground Railroad itself, one finds Robert Dafford's mural honoring the heroic men and women who fled their enslavement in the southern states, as well as those (white and black) Scioto…