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March 25, 1862, the Sugar Grove Cemetery Association met and passed a resolution that Lot No. 130, in Section 1, containing 2,030 square feet of ground, appraised at $203, "be and the same is hereby set apart and do- nated for the exclusive purpose of a place of interment for all volunteer sol- diers from Clinton County who have fallen or may hereafter fall by disease or
- * Other organizations were a " Ladies' Dime Circle," a " Ladies' Soldiers' Relief Society," and a relief society in each township in the county, authorized by the Commissioners, for the purpose of affording aid to the families of soldiers.
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in battle." Monday evening, May 26, 1862, a great excitement was created in Wilmington on receipt of a telegram from Gov. Tod to the Clinton County Military Committee, asking for 100 more men from the county to join the forces which were to be sent to the dofonse of Washington, which was in im- minent danger. Recruiting in response to this telegram did not progress very rapidly; but thirty men were secured in three days, while Fayotte County sent her quota of 100 men to Columbus on the morning following the receipt of the dispatch. On the 3d of July, Gov. Tod called for more men from Ohio, in response to a call issued by President Lincoln. In the same month, numerous Clinton County men were sent with others to Kentucky for a three months' campaign against the rebol Gen. Morgan, who had frightened the people of Cincinnati and Southwestern Ohio by a threatened raid. In July, Gov. Tod made the following appointments for a new regiment-the Seventy-ninth-of which three companies were to be raised in Clinton County. Colonel, R. B. Hayes; Lieutenant Colonel, R. B. Harlan, of Wilmington; Adjutant, Rodney Foos, of Wilmington. Col. Hayes became Colonel of another regiment, and Lieut. Col. Harlan did not go to the field. Company officers were appointed as follows: First Company-I. B. Allen, of Wilmington. Captain; John A. Smith, of Wilmington, First Lieutenant; H. S. Doan, of Wilmington, Second Lieutenant. Second Company *- J. C. Moon, of Wilmington, Captain; John Harrison, of New Vienna, First Lieutenant; Bryant Robinson, of Westboro, Second Lieutenant. Third Company-G. B. Hicks, of Clarksville, Captain; A. H. Butkin, of Port William, First Lieutenant; John Reese, of Reesville,
. Second Lieutenant. Recruiting was begun immediately, and volunteers came in quite rapidly at Wilmington for Capt. Allen's company. War meetings were held in various parts of the county, and the citizens adopted active measures to escape a draft, which they foared might be made, and which a second call for 300,000 men soon after made them apprehend still more. Capt. Allen's company .left for Camp Dennison August 11, 1862. A war meeting . had been held the day previous at the fair ground to effect the organization of the company, where speeches were made by Judge West and A. W. Doan. A large number of people attended, including a considerable delegation from Martinsville. Capt. Spencer's company, recruited at Sabina, left August 12, . 1862, for Camp Dennison, an enthusiastic crowd being present to witness its departure.
In the third week of August, 1862, the papers of Wilmington stated that nearly every train west for ten days had taken out volunteers from Clinton County. About that time Gov. Tod appointed R. E. Doan Commissioner to superintend the draft in the county, while Jeptha Perrill was appointed Pro- vost Marshal, Dr. J. Walker, of Wilmington, Examining Surgeon, and Marion Wilkerson, of Clarksville, Assistant Surgoon. Stephen Evans was subse- quently appointed Draft Commissioner, and September 16 was set as the day on which the draft should be made, with the apportionment as follows: Union Township, 63; Vernon, 17: Greene, 41; Wayne, 17; Washington, 12; Liberty, 17; Adams, 6; Richland, 27; Wilson, 23; Marion, 25; Jefferson, 26; Chester, 37; Clark, 23; total, 336. The draft was postponed until October 1, but was finally made, the following persons being drawn:
Adams Township-Nathan Newly, John T. Ward, Joseph Pennington, Henry M. Reese, Samuel Hutchinson, Archibald Jobe, Josiah Anderson-7.
Wilson Township-George Gray-1.
Wayne Township-John M. C. Wilson, David Rollison, Eli Mathew. John Hoblett, Edmund West, Henry F. Johnson, James M. Syfferd, Joseph
* The officers of this company were changed to the following: Ethan Allen Spencer, of Wilson Township. Captain; Daniel Giffin, of Richland Township, First Lieutenant; John Harrison, of Greene Township, Second Lieu- tenant.
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Sweetman, Daniel Dragoo, John Q. Adams, Jr., John Savage, John Butter- field, Henry L. Lutterell, Isaac Runnells, Ryden Van Pelt-15.
Washington Township-James Skimmings, Armonia M. Hale, George King, Elijah G. Ford, William H. Floroa -- 5.
Marion Township-Thomas T. Sever, Jacob Burroughs, Milton A. Craft -3.
Liberty Township -- Joshua Pilcher, Allen Beal, Stephen Shafer, John A. Boal, William Almond, James Barton, Josoph Antrum, Jra Scott, Thomas Linkhart, William S. Hoblett, Asa Oliphant, Calvin H. Antram, John Rankin, John Cline-14.
Greone Township -- Washington Spears, Salathiel Harris, John W. Bean, Valentine Cox, Joel Sanderson, Michael Swingley, John R. Holmes, George W. Mory -- 8.
Chester Township -- Lawson M. Lafetra, Robert Reeves, Washington Nagles, Nathan Mckay, Amos Mills, William Q. Hurton, Richard Williams, Jeremiah' Jeffries, Samuel P. Bailey, Jamos Austin, Emory H. McMillan, Philip Mills, Edward Evans, John Mendenhall, Jamos Jay, Amos Haines, Will- iam H. Ferguson, Joshua Lucas, James Mannon, William Lister, Robert Carr, Clarkson McMillan, Nathan Kirk-23.
Union Township-Michael O'Donnel, William J. Rouch, William Woods, Frederick Wegman, Thomas W. Gaskill, Eli Thompson, Alfred C. Antram, Jesse H. Stout, James C. Boyd, George L. Fallis, Jesse Woods, Jacob Thomp- son, John Davis, William Smith, John M. Kirk, John Mussetter, Alfred Wil- son, John Conway, James Wilson, James Thompson, Nathan Starbuck, Will- iam Welch-22.
Numbers of the above procured substitutes, for which they paid sums ranging from $300 to $500 each. The drafted men left for. Camp Dennison October 6, 1862. Many of them joined old regiments, while others entered new three years' regiments. Col. James Farden, of the Fifty-fourth, resigned on account of ill health, and returned to his home in Wilmington in Decom- ber, 1862. Sorgt. Landon S. Farquhar, a former citizen of Wilmington, but for some years a resident of Indiana, from which State he volunteered in the Ninth Indiana Regiment of Infantry, was killed at Murfreesboro, Tenn., De- cember 31, 1862, by a cannon shot striking him in the left groin.
Most of the foregoing items were found in the file of the Wilmington Watchman for 1862; those which follow were gathered from the volumes of the Clinton Republican for that and the subsequent years of the war.
At Sabina, on the day after the receipt of the news of the great battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 6 and 7, 1862, a meeting of the citizens was called; , and a committee appointed to solicit contributions to send for the relief of those at the scene of the conflict. This committee was composed of E. Roberts, John Sillik and R. McGuire, and by evening of the same day they had col- lected $295.35, of which $74.50 had been raised at a meeting held at Rees- ville at 3 o'clock that afternoon. Dr. S. A. Christy, David Giffin, John Park- erson, Elias Roberts and Samuel Henry wore sent with this money as nurses to the scono of suffering, a large box of delicacies and necessary articles hav- ing been made up and sont the same evening (April 10). Dr. Christy had been influential in calling the mecing at Sabina, of which C. P. Gallaher was Chair- man, and J. Theobald, Secretary.
In June, 1862, a company of men was raised, mostly in Clinton County, for the Eighty-fifth Regiment (three months' men), and went out commanded by John C. Moon. After their time was out, Capt Moon at once bogan recruiting a company for the three years' service, half of his old company re-enlisting. Under calls for troops in the summer of 1862, five companies were raised in
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Clinton County by Capts. George B. Hicks, I. B. Allen, Ethan A. Spencer, J. R. Stillwell and J. C. Moon. Sergt. J. B. Nickerson, of the Fortieth Infantry, left for his command September 1, 1862, with sixteen recruits whom he had enlisted at Wilmington. On the 9th of August, Capt. G. B. Hicks' company (D) for the Seventy-ninth Regiment was reported full, and the next morning he ' proceeded with it-a fine body . of men-to Camp Dennison. Capt. Allen's and Capt. Spencer's companies scon followed, and Capt. Stillwell's company. which was raised in the neighborhood of Clarksville, went into camp on the 22d.
During the week ending September 11, 1862, there was great excitement at Wilmington and throughout the county. Rumors arrived on Wednesday evening, the 3d of the month, by telegraph, that Cincinnati was in imminent danger of attack from a large force of rebels who were marching upon it from the Kentucky side of the Ohio. The alarm spread rapidly. A meeting was called to be held at the court house, and soon the bell rang out in impatient tones to call the people together. Posters were printed and widely circulated, calling on the citizens of the county to assemble at Wilmington the following day, bringing with them all available kinds of fire-arms, for the purpose of organ- izing volunteer companies to go to the defense of Cincinnati. "Runners " were sent into the country to tell the news, calls to arms were issued by the newspapers, and, on the morning of the next day, an immense gathering of pecple assembled at the county seat, the men being armed with squirrel rifles, shot-guns, muskets, etc., and the boys of fourteen were as eager to be enrolled as were their elders, of all ages up to threescore and ten. It needed but this danger to thoroughly arouse the people, and the uprising in the county was greater than at any other time during the war. Volunteers were called for at the meeting held in the forenoon at the court house, and 405 men stepped for- ward immediately. A special train was provided by the railroad company, and at 6 o'clock in the evening the men embarked, having been formed into companies about an hour before. These companies were officered as follows: First Company-John Q. Smith, Captain; Leroy Pope, First Lieutenant; John A. Smith, Second Lieutenant. Second Company-David Brown, Captain; Elon B. Ward, First Lieutenant; John W. Custis, Second Lieutenant. Third Company-Mahlon Wall, Captain; William C. Wilson, First Lieutenant; Samuel Rulon, Second Lieutenant. Fourth Company-A. E. Steele, Captain; Christopher Rhonemus, First Lieutenant; M. P. Early, Second Lieutenant. These companies were all formed at Wilmington; a fifth, raised at Blanchester, had for its officers John K. Trickey, Captain; Joseph Kelsey, First Lieutenant. All proceeded to Cincinnati, and were formed into a battalion. They were sent to a position some miles south of the city, in Kentucky; but, after a few days, were sent home, the rebels, under Kirby Smith, failing to give them a chance to test their mettle and marksmanship. These volunteers became known as the "squirrel hunters," a name which has been recorded in history. Al: though they saw no fighting, heard not the roar of heavy guns nor the rattle of musketry, and had no chance to spill blood, yet they felt ready for anything, and had they been well armed, must have made ugly opponents for even a well organized army.
Liout. Chapman, of Company G, Eleventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was in Wilmington in September, 1862, recruiting for his regiment. The State was then under martial law, and persons leaving were required to first procure passes; none were necessary, however, in going from county to county within the State. Several military companies were formed in the county under a militia law, and those had regular drills. A recruiting officer came to Wil- mington on the evening of May 15, 1863, seeking recruits for a Massachusetts
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colored regiment, and on Monday morning following he left for Waynesville with eighteen of the colored citizens of Wilmington, who had onlisted under him. They were Erasmus Bennett, John Joels; Jamos A. Rickman, David Adams, Nathaniel Stewart, O. S. Hightower, Levi Green, William Barber, William H. Thomas, Joseph Maco, A. Thomas, Jordan Robinson, Albert T. Felter, Seth C. Felter, Samuel Hill, Richard Jones, Simon Ratcliffe, Charles Chatman.
In June, 1863, in response to a call from the President, it became neces- sary to raise men in Ohio to serve six months, and stops were taken toward. raising three companies in Clinton County. Ohio was asked to furnish, under this call, twenty-five regiments of infantry, three of cavalry, and three batteries of artillery, and in the same proportion according to the number volunteering. The Governor also urgod the expediency of raising at least one colored regi- ment in the Stato during the thirty days following June 22, 1863. A new militia law in Ohio, in the summer of 1863, required that every able-bodied man in the Stato botwoon the ages of eighteen and forty-five years should either enroll himself in a militia company or pay a cortain sum of money. Five years' service rendered oach man exempt from further duty under that law. The townships were formed into military districts, and in Clinton County the following company officers were elected:
Union Township, First District-Morris Harlan, Captain; Lewis C. Wal- ker, First Lieutenant; John Rutherford, Second Lieutenant. Second District -William Frazer, Captain; B. Leonard, First Lieutenant; William H. Reed, Second Lieutenant. Third District-Henry S. Doan, Captain ; John K. Spen- cer, First Lieutenant; Joseph Doan, Second Lieutenant. Fourth District- R. H. Smith, Captain; C. W. Doan, First Lieutenant; S. Jones, Second Lieu- tenant. Fifth District-John M. Underwood, Captain; Lewis Boots, First Lieutenant; William E. Parker, Second Lieutenant.
Liberty Township, First District -James H. Hart, Captain; Reese Stephens, First Lieutenant; Cyrus Johnson, Second Lieutenant. Second Dis- trict-Tilghman Mckay, Captain; A. C. Hiatt, First Lieutenant; J. C. Coha- gen, Second Lieutenant.
Chester Township, First District-Benjamin Collett, Captain; John Mid- dleton, First Lieutenant; C. H. Van Tress, Second Lieutenant. Second Dis- trict -- H. C. Colvin, Captain; J. Blair, First Lieutenant; M. M. Collett, Sec- ond Lieutenant.
Adams Township, First District-J. M. Gorrelle, Captain; P. R. Osborn, First Lieutenant; S. Denney, Second Lieutenant.
Jefferson Township, First District-C. J. Cunningham, Captain; John T. Hammer, First Lieutenant; Goorge Hudson, Second Lieutenant. Second Dis- trict-J. D. Hodson, Captain; J. T. Jackson, First Lieutenant; G. R. Jack- son, Second Lieutenant.
Clark Township, First District-Finley Moon, Captain; George R. Moon, First Lieutenant; J. P. Langden, Second Lieutenant.
Marion Township, First District-C. P. Baldwin, Captain; Joseph Garri- son, First Lieutenant; S. G. Clark, Second Lieutenant. Second District- Henry C. Smith, Captain; Andrew J. Hodson, First Lieutenant; J. M. Gustin, Second Lieutenant.
Vernon Township, First District-Eli Hadley, Captain; David Mann, First Lieutenant; D. A. Kelley, Second Lieutenant. Second District -- John M. Villars, Captain; T. H. Townsend, First Lieutenant; E. Cast, Second Lieutenant.
Washington Township, First District-Samuel Briggs, Captain; Daniel Stephenson, First Lieutenant; Frank Mitchel, Second Lieutenant. Second
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District-William Clevenger, Captain; Philip Smith, First Lieutenant; Clark Brown, Second Lieutenant.
Wilson Township, First District-Ethan A. Spencer, Captain; M. P. Early, First Lieutenant; O. B. Carroll, Second Lieutenant. Second District-Will- iam Popo, Captain; I. C. Williams, First Lieutenant; B. B. Brower, Second Lieutonart.
Richland Township, First District-H. H. Thorp, Captain; Thomas Glass, First Liontenant; John Konny, Socond Lieutenant. Socond District-C. Rhonemus, Captain; William Ross, First Lieutenant; Lewis Bigley, Second Lieutenant.
Wayne Township, First District-J. Stout, Captain; B. Davis, First Lieutenant; J. Runnels, Second Lieutenant. Second District-James E. Pidgeon, Captain; William H. Strode, First Lieutenant; James Babb, Second Lioutonant.
Greeno Township, First District --- Joshua Hussey, Captain; Granville Os- born, First Liontenant; W. W. Barnes, Second Lieutenant. Second District -Thomas Elliott, Captain; Elijah Mathews, First Lieutenant; M. Swingley, Second Lieutenant. Third District-William C. Wilson, Captain; James V. Raynald, First Lieutenant; Nowton Shoemaker, Second Lieutenant.
About the same time those officers were appointed for their respective dis- tricts (July, 1863), news arrived that the rebel Gen. John Morgan was push- ing rapidly through Indiana toward Cincinnati on his famous raid. With the news came the proclamation of Gov. Tod calling out the militia, and on Mon- day morning July 18, they gathered at Wilmington about one thousand strong, ready to be transported to camp. Companies also took the cars at Sabina, Reesville and Sligo. One company, under command of Capt. Eli Hadley, had left Clarksville on the early morning train, and was captured by Morgan's men before reaching Camp Dennison, and before obtaining arms. The rebels had torn up the track, from which the train was thrown, killing the fireman and wounding the engineer. The prisoners were hastily paroled, and the raiders, after destroying the train, pushed eastward through Williamsburg to. Georgetown. The other companies did not reach Camp Dennison until Wednes- day; but on Tuesday, while they were waiting for transportation, a cavalry company was hastily organized and sent off south westwardly on a scouting ex- pedition. Men of all classes and callings came forward to offer their services at this time, for war in their very midst was something which had not been prepared for. The writer has heard men say, who were among the volunteers who joined in the pursuit of Morgan, that they were never anxious to overtake him, and were willing always to be twenty-four hours behind him, which they generally were. But however the case may be, the bold rebel found himself so hotly beset that he imagined that safety lay only in precipitate flight; conse- quently he retreated as rapidly as possible. But his pursuers at last entrapped him, and with some of his brother officers he spent some time in the peniten- tiary at Columbus, finally escaping to the South, and at length meeting the fate of a traitor.
In August, 1863, Rev. J. F. Spence, late Chaplain of the Forty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was in Wilmington recruiting for the Second Ohio Battery of heavy artillery. At that time, four companies of volunteer militia had been organized in the county, and formed by the Adjutant General of the State into a battalion called the Fifty-fifth. On the last day of August, H. H. Hankins, of Company A, was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the battalion. The three militia regiments of the county elected their officers as follows:
First Regiment-H. S. Doan, Colonel; H. B. Crumly, Lieutenant Colonel; Alfred Mckay, Major.
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Second Regiment-A. F. Deniston, Colonel; David Mann, Lieutenant Colonel; Owen West, Major.
Third Regiment -- E. A. Spencer, Colonel; James Pidgeon, Lieutenant Colonel; - Matthews, Major.
Maj. John F. Rucker, a notorious rebel bushwacker, grew to manhood in Clinton County, but a few years previous to the war removed to Missouri, and when the rebellion broke out he entered the Confederate service and became one of the most desperate of the guerrilla leaders. On the 8th of September, 1863, he was mortally wounded in an engagement with a detachment of Union troops under Capt. Williams, of Company A, Ninth Provisional Regiment, E. M. M., near St. Aubert, Calloway Co., Mo. He had paid a visit to Wilming- ton but a few weeks previously, but learned that the Deputy Provost Marshal was anxious to see him, and departed for more congenial territory.
On the 3d of March, 1863, the total number of Clinton County volunteers in actual service was 1,108, including 1,030 in various infantry regiments, 31 in the cavalry, and 47 miscellaneous-gun-boat service, etc. The different townships of the county were represented in numbers as follows:
Union, 186; Chester and Adams, 99; Liberty, 90; Vernon, Marion and Jefferson, 217; Clark and Washington, 171; Greene and Wayne, 188; Rich- land and Wilson, 157; total, 1,108. In October, 1863, P. H. Stamats, for- merly of Company H, Thirty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry (wounded in the hand at New Madrid), was appointed First Lieutenant in Capt. Charles Oren's Company (E), in the Fifth United States Colored Infantry. Capt. Oren, Assist. Surg. H. V. Noble, and one other man in the company besides Lieut. Stamats, were from Clinton County. Under the call of the President for 300, - 000 men in the fall of 1863, the quota of the Sixth Congressional District of Ohio was 1,624, of which Clinton County's quota was 284, apportioned as fol- lows among the townships: Union, 51; Chester, 20; Liberty, 18; Vernon, 15; Marion, 18; Jefferson, 14; Clark, 27; Washington, 17; Greene, 36; Adams, 14; Wayne, 18; Richland, 21; Wilson, 15. Each new recruit was offered a bounty of $302 and premium, while veterans were entitled to $100 more. December 9, 1863, five recruits were sent from Clinton County to join a battalion of Ohio troops guarding prisoners at Johnson's Island, the battalion being raised to a regiment when sufficient recruits had been obtained. The five Clinton men were William E. Parker, Elisha Parker, Thomas Gaskill, Thomas Haws and George Bernlehr. The regiment as organized was numbered the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth. In the month of December, 1863, Maj. Clement and Sergts. McMillan and Clifford, of the Seventy-ninth, were recruiting for their regiment in Clinton and adjoining counties.
Monday, January 11, 1864, about sixty cords of wood were brought by the farmers to Wilmington and contributed to the families of soldiers living in the place. Forty citizens who had no wood to contribute paid $1 each, and joined with the farmers in partaking of a bountiful dinner at Clinton Hall. In the same month (January, 1864), Capt. T. Q. Hildebrant, Capt. J. M. Underwood and Capt. Joshua Hussey, were appointed recruiting officers for Clinton County, and the time for receiving recruits was extended to the 1st of March, the bounties of $302 and $402 remaining the same. Any man who had served in the army not less than nine months was deemed a veteran, and became entitled to the larger bounty upon volunteering. About February 1, 1864, Lieut. Joseph J. Wakefield began recruiting a company in the county for the Twenty-seventh regiment United States Colored Troops. Early in March, Lieut .* J. M. Underwood sent forward twenty-four recruits from Wil- mington and vicinity, to be assigned to new companies, and others had been
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recruited about the same time for veteran regiments. The Clinton Republican of March 18, 1864, stated that Capt. Williamson, of the Seventy-ninth, was in town recruiting sharpshooters for his company, while Lieut. J. M. Underwood was still seeking for men to join his company in the Sixtieth, at Camp Chase. The total quota of Clinton County under the calls aggregating 700,000 men, in the spring of 1864, was 487; and, after deducting the credits for veterans and now recruits up to the 2d of April, there remained yet to be raised 363., A draft was imminent if the townships did not raise the numbers expected of them. Adams was the first township in the county to fill her quota, and was congrat- ulated upon the fact by the Provost Marshal. In the latter partof April, Gov. Brough (who had boon elected the previous fall), called into active service for 100 days, unless sooner discharged, the militia companies of the State, which had been ro-organized as the Ohio National Guard, under an act passed March 31, 1864. Of the 486 companies in the State, 443 responded to the call, in- cluding the four from Clinton County, constituting the Fifty-fifth battalion. The latter was consolidated with a battalion from Highland County, the two forming tho Twenty-seventh Regiment Ohio National Guards. The command loft for Camp Dennison May 4, 1864, and chose West Virginia as their place of destination. At Columbus, Ohio, soon after, the Clinton County battalion was consolidated with one from Ross County, the two together being known as the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment, 850 strong, commanded by Col. A. E. Brown. They were sent to Washington, saw severe service in Vir- ginia, and returned home at the expiration of their term of enlistment.
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