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HUNTERSWENT FROMitiMayor Crowe has an interesting arms or equipment and the menrelic of the days of the Civil war and tells an interesting story of how when the county was menaced and a call to arms was made farmers left their plows, business men their desks and shop men their benches to respond to the call. ' # s„The story is revived and the old relic brought to light by the passageof an appropriation bill by the recentwent to the front with their own eq-uipment even to the home made pow der horn. Because of this and the general appearance of the regiment they were dubbed the “Squirrel Hunters.”They never received any compensation for their call to the front and the recent legislature has passed a bill appropriating the sum of $13 orlegislature appropriating th sum of j one months military pay to each one $13 each or one month’s army pay living. In 1863 the legislature is-to each of the”Squirrel Hunters.” In 1862 General Kirby Smith of the Confederates made a raid toward Ohio wit hi about 11.000 men and al though he never succeeded in getting into the Buckeye state it looked for a time as if he would cross the river. His destination was Columbus and it was planned by him to capure the state capital* -Because of the majority of the men and practically all of the youngmisquirrel’; sued discharges to each 6f the “Squir ' rel Hunters” although all did not re ceire them.Altohough seventy-two hunters” answered the call from De-| fiance and vicinity but fewr are living. Mayor Crowe was captain of the company, C. B. Mix, first lieutenant; David Butler, second lieutenant; John Paul,, orderly sergeant; and John Davidson and E. T. Moon, privates. Mayor Crowe is compilingmen being eiilisted in the various re- roster of the company that wrentgiments that had been formed at the | from Iefiance and it will be published in full in Saturday’s Crescent-Xevs.He has written to Columbus andarms.The call was received in DefianceDpening of the war there was no mi litia left in Ohio to protect the state against these raiders and GovernorTodd issued a call to every man to | will shortly, send there a roster ofthe Defiance'“SquirreI Hunters.” Butr” *.■* K ‘ v ,*-{J. ■! ' jf ’ * * J ... rA’ 7': • . •!/.■ 'lt; 0 «'. * l.V' fv .v. i1 ..few, however, will receive their com-Sept. 10, 1862 and John Crowe who I Pensation as the majority have ans-had just returned from Cleveland im I wered the last call-one to peace in-mediately commenced the enlistment j sted of arms, of a company here. On the morning of the twelfth he issued a call and business men, shop men and farmersimmediately responded. In* the af-|Hls Expert8 Say He Weakened CasewITHAW IS CENSUREDternoon a meeting was held at the court house, a company w'ith a membership of seventy-two organized and late in the afternoon they start ed on their journey to the front at Cincinnati where they joined the oth er minute men that had organized. In all about 4000 minute men were brought out by this call.The first to arrive of these minute men received orders to cross the river. But the time that the Defiance company was to cross, however, the orders were countermanded as Kirby Smith was on the retreat. After being in service six days the Defiance company was mustered out and returned to theif homes.These minute men w^ere provided with no uniforms but wore the colth ing that they answered the call in. There yce no provisions qjade forby Action on Witness Stand.Poughkeepsie. N. Y., May 18.—Fatigued after his three days ef attendance upon the hearing before Justice Mbrschauser to determine the question of his sanity, and the trying ordeal, brief though It was, upon the witness stand, Harry K. Thaw slept f soundly-through the night in the sheriffs.- room1 in the courthouse. He looked at all the morning papers and told Jailer Havens that he did not think he was as nervous on the stand as some of the reporters described him. He said that he had tried to be careful wrhat he caid, and he thought it was his cx.t-e~.ie caution that caused bis apparent nervousness. He was glad that the trial was over. He said he hid been U’d by his experts that his conduct qa the stand had prejudiced Us case,and he felt some discouragem ent.
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The Crescent-News
Defiance, Ohio, US
Mon, May 18, 1908
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