1840 to 9,741. In the year 1832 the Hon. Robert Lucas was elected Governor of Ohio and re-elected in 1834. It was during the administration of Governor Lucas that a dispute between the State of Ohio and the Territorial Government of Michigan arose as regarded the southern boundary of the latter, the Territorial Government claiming a meridianal that would run from five to eight miles south of Lake Erie, encroaching on lands of the Connecticut Company, a land grant from the General Government at Washington. Governor Lucas, in endeavoring to protect citizens of Ohio living north of the disputed line, was defied and the citizens thereof declared outlaws by the Government of Michigan. The rulers of each sovereignty flew to arms, calling for volunteers to defend their respective rights and sustain the dignity of each as guaranteed them by the General Government.

At a general muster held in Logan in September, 1835, a call for volunteers was made for the above purpose, and a response came promptly by more than a score of the horny-handed yeomanry shouldering their trusty rifles and declaring their readiness to start instanter; but before hostilities actually commenced agents from the city of Washington arrived on the ground, the dispute was amicably settled and the collected troops sent home.

"LITTLE HOCKING IN THE MEXICAN WAR.

Again in the year 1846 was the patriotism of the county, in common with our State and the Confederation, appealed to. Texas, the Lone Star State, had been annexed to the United States during the administration of President James K. Polk. The Republic of Mexico having never acknowledged the independence of Texas and still claiming it as her territory, advanced troops across the river Rio Grande, who were promptly met by the army of occupation under General Taylor, and the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma were fought before war was formally declared by the United States Government. Both the battles going against the Mexicans they were routed and driven back across the Rio Grande. March 11, 1846, war was declared and 50,000 volunteers, one year men, from the whole United States were called for. "Little Hocking." with a population of scarcely 10,000, sprang to the front with an organized company headed by the veritable General Tom Worthington, of recent war history fame, as Captain, Simeon. Tucker, First Lieutenant, and Abram Seifert, Second Lieutenant, numbering in all, rank and file, eighty men, and being assigned to

the Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry commanded by Colonel Morgan (since General Morgan), headquarters at Camp Washington, Cincinnati, Ohio. They reported there for duty, taking the position in numbers as Company D. The organization of the regiment took Captain Worthington from the command of Company D and made him Adjutant of the regiment. The company re-organized by making Simeon Tucker, Captain; Abram Seifert, First Lieutenant; Woodward, Second Lieutenant, and Wilford Stiers, Orderly. The summer of 1846 the Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry with other troops landed at Brazos de Santiago, and immediately pushed forward up the Rio Grande River as far as Camargo and there went into camp.

From Camargo the regiment was ordered forward toward Monterey, a city in Mexico that had a short time previous fallen into the hands of the United States army by assault, and while on the march were completely surrounded by the Mexican army of lanceros under General Parades. The little army immediately formed in hollow square, still marching onward and fighting as they advanced. All day long the battle continued, Colonel Morgan having in the meantime dispatched a messenger forward for reinforcements. To ward evening cannonading was heard in the distance, approached nearer and nearer, yet whether friend or foe they knew not; the theory seemed to prevail that it was the enemy's battery. They.. came dashing down and unlimbered again not over 600 yards in front of this regiment of heroes, Company D. "Captain Seifert," shouted Colonel Morgan, "prepare your company to lead a charge and take that battery." Immediately the Hocking boys fixed bayonet and and formed for the assault, when an officer with field-glass in hand declared them to be United States and not Mexican artilleryists. Then a shout went up that made the welkin ring. Orderly Stiers assured us that although determined to do their duty and face the cannon's mouth, yet it was altogether exhilarating to find the supposed enemy our own men. Reinforcements having arrived the enemy retired and the little band pressed forward to their destination. The regiment remained in service. during the year of enlistment, doing duty at Monterey, Saltillo and Buena Vista, and was mustered out at New Orleans the following year. What was left of Company D returned to their homes, but death from disease and the battle had made sad havoc in the ranks, and but few of the hardy, robust sons of our pioneers hailed with delight once more the hills of Hocking. Of the

original company but four are now living, to-wit: General Tom Worthington, Captain Wilford Stiers, Grafton Eckhart and Samuel Stivison.

WHAT OHIO DID.

During the war of the Rebellion the State of Ohio furnished 230 regiments of soldiers, besides twenty-six independent batteries of artillery, five or six independent companies of cavalry, several companies of sharp-shooters, a good portion of five regiments credited to Virginia, two credited to Kentucky, two transferred to the United States colored troops, innumerable squirrel-hunters and thousands of emergency men. Hocking County, as one of the smaller of the eighty-eight complete county organizations of this great State, responded to the respective calls of the General Government promptly, and during the continuance of this unpleasantness furnished the following companies, parts of companies and detachments. The second call of the President on Ohio for twenty-three regiments found two companies of volunteers in camp on the fair grounds near Lancaster, in the adjoining county of Fairfield; they at once formed the nucleus of the Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for the three months' service. In a very short time a company of ninety-one men, rank and file, under command of Captain Charles A. Barker, arrived from Hocking County, officered as follows: Captain, Charles A. Barker; First Lieutenant, Samuel H. Baker; Second Lieutenant, Charles H. Rippey; Orderly, Charles L. Jennings; Sergeants, Daniel Nunemaker, David Angle and Joseph Fox.

THE MARCHES OF THE GALLANT SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT.

The regiment being promptly filled an organization was effected by electing the following field officers: Colonel, John M. Connell; Lieutenant-Colonel, Francis B. Pond; Major, Clement F. Steel; Surgeon, John G. S. Kile; Assistant Surgeon, T. G. Cleveland. In ranking, the company from Hocking was called Company D.

On the 20th of April, 1861, the regiment took the cars at Zanesville for Bellaire, and arriving, found at Benwood, on the Ohio opposite Bellaire, a large fleet of boats waiting to receive troops. On the twenty-third, all the troops and baggage being aboard, the fleet steamed down the river to Marietta, stopped over Sunday and on Monday started for Parkersburg, and in a few hours were on Virginia soil. The Seventeenth was brigaded with the Ninth

and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, General W. S. Rosecrans commanding the brigade. Its first duty was to guard trains to Clarksburg, Va., and return. Companies A and B were detailed as guard to General McClellan. It soon becoming evident that the hills of Jackson County, Va., were full of guerrillas, carrying on their nefarious warfare, Company D, Captain Barker, and Company F, Captain Stinchecomb, proceeded down to Ripley Landing, and across the country to Ripley, the county seat of Jackson County, with or ders to operate against the aforesaid guerrillas wherever found in that locality. The two Wises, father and son, were then commanding Confederate troops in that section of the State, and had given out how they would "annihilate the Yankees on sight," but, signally failing in their precarious undertaking, retired from that vicinity. A part of the Seventeenth Regiment remained at Ravenswood and did garrison duty until the 10th of July, when they were ordered to join their regiment at Buckhannon, Upshur Co., Va. On the 14th of July five companies, under command of Colonel Connell, marched from Petroleum, via Glenwood, at which place they were, on the 4th day of July, surrounded by about 1,500 rebels, but beat them back until reinforcements arrived under command of the late General Lytle. The regiment, after consolidating at Buckhannon, partook, with other troops, in occupying and fortifying Sutton. On the 3d of August, the regiment, having then overserved their time, started home, arriving on the 13th day of August in Zanesville, O., and were mustered out on the 15th.

NEW ORGANIZATION.

The officers of the regiment immediately set to work to reorganize the Seventeenth for the three years' service, and in September, 1861, we find the regiment as reorganized, in Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati, O., still with one company (Company D), from Hocking County, under the following organization: Captain, Charles H. Rippey; First Lieutenant, Gilrath M. Webb; Second Lieutenant, Henry C. Dewar; Orderly, Joseph W. Fox; Sergeants, Wm. H. Baker, Isaac Coakley, Francis A. Sanderson, Jonathan Sterling; eight corporals and eighty-seven privates. The regimental organization was: Colonel, John M. Connell; Lieutenant-Colonel, Marshall F. Moore; Major, Durbin Ward; Surgeon, Washington L. Schenck; Assistant Surgeon, E. Sinnett.

A SERIES OF MARCHES.

In October, 1861, the regiment under orders reported at Camp Dick Robinson, Garrard County, Ky., for duty. From there it moved to Wild Cat, where, with Colonel Garrard of the First Kentucky, they whipped the rebels after a severe fight, the Seventeenth having seven men wounded. The regiment was then brigaded with the Thirty-first and Thirty-eighth Ohio, General Albin · Schoepf commanding. The regiment participated in the battle of Mill Springs on the 19th of January, 1862, where the rebel General Zollicoffer was killed, and the rebel army put to rout; was one of the first regiments to enter the enemy's fortifications next day, the enemy badly demoralized having evacuated the works during the night, leaving twelve cannons and caissons, with horses harnessed and hitched up, 1,500 horses corraled along the bank of the Cumberland River, a number of large siege guns, thousands of shot-guns, bowie knives, military stores, Quartermaster's stores, etc., etc., behind. From here the regiment marched to Louisville, Ky., and took boat for Nashville, Tenn., arriving there on the 3d day of March, 1862; thence across the country to Shiloh with the grand army, commanded by General Buell, but did not arrive in time to participate in the "Pittsburg Landing" fight, but took a hand in the siege of Corinth; marched to Boonville, Miss.; to Tuscumbia, Ala.; from this place marched with General Buell's army back to Louisville, Ky., and was at the battle of Perryville. From Danville and Lebanon the army commenced its backward march, and the Seventeenth participated in the battle of Stone River. On the night of the 29th of December, their brigade marched from Nolinsville to the Murfreesboro Pike, had a skirmish with Wheeler's Cavalry at LaVergne, recaptured all the mules Wheeler had taken from our train, and saved some 200 wagons from being burned. The regiment with its brigade went into battle line on the Stone River field at one o'clock, Dec. 31, charged the rebel General Hanson's brigade, drove them in confusion, killing their General, and some 150, rank and file; the loss of the Seventeenth Regiment was twenty wounded. In July, 1863, at Hoover's Gap, the Seventeenth, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Durbins Ward, in connection with the Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, charged the Seventeenth Tennessee rebel regiment, and a rebel brigade, strongly posted in a belt of woods, although the Seventeenth being exposed in making a charge to a flanking fire from