The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-11-16

Total ..----...-..---..---.-. ..3l7 ,433
These men were enlisted for various
periods Of service from one hundred days
TO five years. Reduced to u three years
standard, they represented 237,97G men.
Tho olcrity with which the men Of Ohio
responded to the calls of the Government,
is shown by tho following facts;
Under tho call of May 3, 1861, tho quota
Of the State was 81 ,365 men slio actually
furnished S4llG Under the cali OF July 3,
1862, her quota was 36,85S the humber
actually furnished was 5S32j, or about
sixty per cont. more than the call required
Since the war ended, Il has been discovered
that 4S,6ll men wero furnished Tor periods
under six months, for which tho Slate re.
ceivcd no credit on any quota. Under the
act OF March 3, 1865, had thoro boon sub.
sequont call for troops. she would have
been credited with 1902 years Of service.
The Provost Marshal General thus speaks
of tho ropidity with which troops wero
raised
Under the call for ono hundred day
troops, in April, 1864, preparatory - tho
opening campaigns OF that year, tho Gov
ornur OF Ohio olfired 10000 mon active
service, Tor one hundred days, unless
soFuer discharged
llo ordered his troops tp rendezvous in
the most eligible places in their respective
counties on tho 81 day of May, aud to re-
port by telegraph at O'clock Of The Same
day. the number present for duty.
Reports were received tho salno day at
~ o'clock that $4,000 mon were in camp
aud dosirolls TO be sent forward. Then
oamo the labor Of consolidation, organizi-
ton, muster and equipment. BY tho 10th
of May tho regiments wero roady TO be
forwarded.
"Betwcon tho 9th and 10th of May, a
period Of twelve days, al regiments aud a
battalion OF soven companies, in all 36, ,254
mon. wcro consolidated organized, mus.
tcrod, clothed, armed, equipped and pre-.
sentod ready for transportation TO tho field
On the 2lh of May, twenty days from
the time this Ohio force rondc2vousad, all
the regiments had left the State for active
service
In tho month Of February, 1868, ponding
the draft under the call of tho previous
December, G9,000 men were put into serv-
vice for one, two or throo years, of which
the States of Ohio, Indiana anl Illinois
furnished 3j,997--over City per cent of
tho entire number, Or these, Ohio raised
lO,oSl, Indiana ,3l7, and Illinois 1866.
During tho months OF February aud
March, 1868, 10000 mea wcro put into
service Of which tho above named States
furnished 5S,792, as follows; Ohio. 49, 1852;
Indiana, 1898; Illinois, 22,0l6. In other
words, these three States riiso about forty
per cont of the entire number raised by all
Il States during these two months.
IN the course of tho war one hundred and
fifteen individuals OF tho State, not enrolled
and not subject to draft, yot dcsirous Of
helping the nation in its struggle, procured
representative rooruits at thoir own OK.
pense aud sort them into tho held or
those two wero hdies, namely Miss JULrA
EdJLE'roN and Miss MElLrE KEcK
The number Of colored mln enlisted in
the State was 5,092, and number of sailors,
1875
OF the $4,000 Ohio soldiers 1928 suf,
fered some casually. or left the Gcld before
tho expiration of thoir term of service.
These were divided rs follows: