The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-14

nuulDtE VI 'OiuDtrcF5 were OOtdlucu.
Later in the day, John H. 0'Neill and
Daniel Humphrey addressed the vast
assemblage at the public square. A
company of soldiers was raised, of which
Fletcher Noles was Captain, and Isaac
DeLonR and Thomas Ross LieuteDants.
At later date another company as
raised, of which Warren Filler was Cap
tain. The first of these companies
served with General Taylor along the
Rio Grande, and the second with Gen.
Scott in his campaign from Vera Cruz
to the city of Mexico. Some of these
old soldiers are here to-day, bnt most of
them are dead, and the mortal remains
of a number OF them sleep beneath the
sod of our sister Republic and now
friendly neighbor.
1850-1860.
These were years of general prosperi
ty, and material advancement, excep-
iioned by the long continued drouth
and almost pestilence of 1854, and the
disastrous frost of june 9TH. 1859.
Early in this decade the C. W. & 4.
r. r. was projected, and constructed
and finished in 1858. The Scioto and
Hooking Valley was also organized,
most of the grading through Perry
county done, much work accomplished
upon the great cut at Somerset, and the
tunnel near Middletown, 1853; but the
enterprise waslrft unfinished, and aban-
doned in 1854, on account of the de-
preston in money matters, and the f.
nancial crisis of that time.
In these years also occurred the series
of pictracted and excited struggles for
the Seat of Justice, as we'll aa the actual
removal Of the same, and the public re.
cords, from Somerset to New Lexington,
early in 1857. In 1855, occurred, or
rather. was completed, the fusion of
political parties, wherein fully one third
Of the democratic party, becoming dis
satisfied with the position of their orga-
nization on the slavery question and
other issues, left it and united with the
new republican party: and large mum.
her Of wings, now that the party was
iisbanded, and liking the democratic
better than the new republican party
united with the democrats. By thi:
change of party lines, and fusion of tht
political elements, Salmon P
Chase, the republican nominee for Gov
ernor, received majority of three hun
lred in Perry county, over Governor
VIM. Medill. who two years previous
mad carried the county by large ma
jority. During the Gubernatorial can
vass of 1857, Gov. Chase made speech
at both Somerset and New Lexington
and remained at the latter place owe
night.
. 1S60-1S70.
First in this decade we have tn
memorable Presidential campaign o
: 1860, in which Abraham Lincoln ant
stephen A. Douglas were the chief com
petitors. John Sherman made his frs
appearance in Perry, and spoke at New
$ Lexington, and little later, from tn
-ame stand, spoke Henry B. Payne, O
Cleveland.
In April, 1861, came the dark cloud Q
!, civil war, the call of President Lincol
for troops, and the quick raising of
= company of three months men by CAP
tain L. ]. Jackson. Soon came the cal
ior troops for three years, or during tn
var, and the raising of companies, i
1861 by Capts J. W. Free, J. W. Fowler
:, W. III. Free, l.. J. Jackson, A. N
Poundstone, B. A. Thomas, n D. HUI
4 lord, and parts of companies by othe
'fficers whom cannot now recall. Also
in 1862, the recruiting of companies b
: Captains Hitchcock, Brown, Muzzy an
hampton. Also, part of company, b
;. Leiut. Young. of the 61st Ohio, and Sc,
i. eral part ofa companies not now remen
; 'ered. Also, in 1863, company Of 81
= months men, by Capt. Macarthur.
;. In July, 1868, came the celebrate
,s Marietta campaign" in which all ii
!, National Guards Of Perry county, an
Ill the militia, were ordered, by Co
i. ernor Tod, to fall in at once and procee
70 Marietta. Without guns, witho,
). equipments, of any kind, but in obe'
=, fence to orders, the guards and milit
70 turned out, and moved down the qui,
,, Muskingum to Marietta.
"a In 1864, ON rainy, cold, inclemel
ID lay, the National Guards of Per,
q county, nearly eight hundred stron
pi paraded in the streets of New Lexin
n ton; and were soon off TO do "post al
garrison duty" in obedience to the ca
nf Governor Brough. The duty W
n rough enough, for raw troops, and
=, number of them died in the service, al
=, others returned home sick and emacia
4 ID.
l. Perry county has just reason to
re | pIOuu VI tno TtcOTu Ol HeE FOluTIe
20 soldiers in the Rebellion war. Th
endured hardships. fatigue, hunger al
be cold, and their cheers were heard, al
"a, their blood flowed, in every importa
~ battle of the war. In McClellan's cal
of paign, up the Peninsula, and aroul
n. Richmond; at Second Bull Rnn,
Ill South Mountain, at Antietam, at Fc
ic, Wagner. at fredericksburg, at Chance
lorsville, at Gettysburg, at Stone Riv,
q at Vicksburg at Chickamauga, at Mi
N. sion Ridge, in all the Atlanta campai
,re battles, at Nashville, at Bentonville,
ba the Wilderness, at Spotsylvania, at CO
ID Harbor, at Deep Bottom, at Winchest
N, at Fishers Hill, at Petersburg, at Fl
no Forks, in all the great battles of the fo
years. war, the sons, the husbands, I
IN brothers, the fathers, faced death bra,
or. ly for their country, for the Union,
X. an idea. for what they thought rig
100 for us, for the world, for coming gene
m. tions. for future ages, dying. hundreds
in. them, far from home and loved ones,
-; the battle field, on the march, in hos