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Title: Ohio in the war : her statesmen, her generals, and soldiers
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912
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Publisher: Cincinnati New York : Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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n hour or two after the arrival of the Cincinnati jjapers with newsof tlie danger—Preble and Butler counties telegraphed olfers of large numbersof men. Warren, Greene, Franklin, and half a score of others, rapidly fol-lowed. Before night the Governor had sent a general answer in thisjiroclamalion: Cincinnati, September 2, 1862.In response to several communications tendering companies and squads of men for theproteclifin of Cincinnati, I announce tliat all such bodies of men who are armed will l)e received.They will repair at once to Cincinnati, and rcjiort to General Lew. WaUacc, wlio will e()iii;)leletheir further o^^^•lnization. None but armed men will be received, and such only until llie 5thinstant. Railroad companies will pa.ss all snch bodies of men at the expense of the State. It isnotdrsired that any troops residing in any of the river counties leave their counties. All suchate rerjuested to organize and remain for the protection of their own counties. DAVID TOD, Governor.
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Siege of Cincinnati. 93 Before daybreak the advance of the men that Avere tlienccforward to beknown in the history of the State as the Squirrel Hunters, were filing tliroughthe streets. Next mornings throughout the interior, church and fire-bella rang;mounted men galloped through neighborhoods to spread the alarm; there wasa hasty cleaning of rifles, and molding of bullets, and filling of powder-horns, andmustering at the villages ; and every city-bound train ran burdened witli thegathering host. While these preparations were in progress perhaps Cincinnati might havebeen taken by a vigorous dash of Kirby Smiths entire force, and held longenough for pillage. But the inaction for a day or two at Lexington was fatalto such hopes. Within two days after the j)roclamation of martial law the citywas safe beyond j^eradventure. Then, as men saw the vast preparations for an enemy that had not come,they began, not unnaturally, to wonder if the need for such measures had beenimperative. A few bus

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