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Clark County Historical Society, [No date: circa 1961]. Wraps, 16 pp.; 24 cm; illustrated with one black-and-white photographic plate.
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In Very Good condition. Yellow textured paper covers lettered in black, staple bound. Mild shelf wear with bumping and creasing to edges, light soiling, small rust-colored stain at fore-edge of front cover with a matching stain and a small dark mark to rear cover. Toning to edges. Faint dampstaining at head of p. 15 and at head of final leaf, near the gutter. "1961" written in ink on title page. Otherwise unmarked. Centennial account of Clark County, Ohio in the Civil War, researched by Willard Dow Allbeck from the Springfield newspapers of 1861 to 1865 and from the Beers History of Clark County (1881), Prince's Standard History of Springfield and Clark County (1922), Whitelaw Reid's Ohio in the War (1868), and the twelve-volume Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion. Foreword by Harvey O. Portz. Covers the county's three pre-war militia companies, the Springfield Zouaves, the Springfield Light Artillery and a company at Tremont; the organization of the Zouaves on September 10, 1860 under Captain Edward C. Mason and their muster as Company F, Second O.V.I.; the Jefferson Guards under Captain Philip Kershner as Company E, 16th O.V.I.; the 44th Regiment at Lewisburg, West Virginia and Dutton's Hill, Kentucky; the losses by capture of the 110th O.V.I. at Winchester, Monocacy and the Wilderness; Clark County men who died at Andersonville; and the first burials at Ferncliff Cemetery. Lists thirty-four companies containing Clark County men plus men in eleven others, and names individual soldiers with company, regiment and fate throughout. Two men in the roster later became prominent: Asa S. Bushnell, captain of Company E, 152nd O.V.I., afterward Governor of Ohio, and J. Warren Keifer, brigade adjutant and Brevet Major General, afterward Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Frontispiece photograph shows Civil War relics of Clark County interest, among them the drum carried by the 44th Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, the saddle of Colonel Robert L. Kilpatrick of the 5th O.V.I., the boots of General J. Warren Keifer, the officer's sword of Captain Lingle of the Ohio Muster Bands, and a portrait of Captain Charles William Needles, the last surviving Clark County veteran.