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Title: Ohio in the war; her statement, generals and soldiers
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912
Subjects: Ohio. Militia Ohio -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Ohio
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, Eclectic Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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formance, that they were only being oiganizedwhen the call was made upon them ; that they Avere utterly without drill, andthat many of them even took the field before their officers had been commis-sioned. In 1864 the Legislature ordered the appointment of a Board of Commis-sioners to examine and pass upon the claims for damages to property duringthe jMorgan raid. Messrs. Albert McVeigh, Geo. W. Barker, and Henry S. Bab-bitt, who were appointed the commissioners, passed over the route of the raid,and had public hearings of the claims at each point. They reduced themlargely in most cases, and classified them into damages done by the Eebeis, byUnited States troops, and by State militia respectively. A summary of theirreport sets forth the results of their investigation in tabular form, as follows: 152 Ohio in the Wak, S^ -o fll O t^ - s^ -^ rc: «2 ^^ !1J S> S 00 SS CO o CO ts CO Sii â ^ _CO Si < ^ o o s« ^ -^ Si. <ft CO Hi o w IsoO « I:
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Vallandigham Campaign. 153 CHAPTER XIII. THE VALLANDIGHAM CAMPAIGN. THE early summer of 1863 was the dead-point of danger in the war.We have been seeing how arbitrary arrests, popular disaffection, resist-ance to the draft, and an audacious invasion were features of its his-tory within the limits of Ohio. Elsewhere the gloom was far greater. Theworse than failure at Chaneellorsville was followed by the transfer of Lees en-tire army to the soil of Pennsylvania. The long labors before Yicksburg hadnot yet been rewarded with success, and fresh disasters at Galveston and else-where had combined to deepen the general gloom. It was in the midst of this feeling that General Eurnside, by his arrest ofMy. Yallandigham, lifted that politician into the position of a representativeman, and, in making him the martyr of his partj% made him also its leader.He had scarcely reached the Confederate lines until the Eebel newspapers wei-eemphasizing the fiict that he could only be received as a prisonerâ

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