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(iM.L.wr Littlk Cknwforo.—'i’he Washing.Cunt'spo iileut of t he New iTork Times has the following in i» :;rrd to what Crawford couu-tv has done iu the. present struggle for national existence:The little county of Crawford, iu Southern indiana, forming part of Gen. J. A. Uravens's Ongr«*sioual District, having only 1,(145 arms bearing men in it, lias sent over 1,000 volunteer - to the war, and enlistments are still pro-i'censiug. Wlia* other county iu the Union has sen;. anything near two-thirdlt; of its men to the war*' To-day Geu. Cravens received a petition from a number of heads of families, citizens of another countf in bis district, asking the Government to cAl for twelve months’ men/’ that all the Jiyf0ng men in the country may enlist, and go for^l to put down the un-hdy rebellion, and “give peace to the land once more.”Crawford has won for herself a national renown. We have no doubt she has sent more men to the war in proportion to her population than any county iu the Union. She borders on Kentucky, with whose people the people of Crawford have ever been on the best of termsAHer sons are fighting tor the restoration of the Union, and not for the abolition of slavery —Lovejoy and John G. Davis to the contrarynotwithstanding.
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New Albany Daily Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Mon, Jan 20, 1862
Page 2
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