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He made them a neat speech telling them
of the obligations they
owed to themselves, and to their
children and their country; dep-
recating the necessity of bringing armed
soldiers into the county,
and winding up by assuring them that he
would not leave until
the guilty were delivered into his
hands, and they promise to
make no more resistance to the laws of
the county.
We are under many obligations to Mr. and
Mrs. Bowers and
Mr. Thomas Fetterman of Napoleon, and
Mr. and Mrs. Austin
of Loudonville, for favors conferred,
for which they will please
accept our thanks.
MACK.
"AFFAIRS IN HOLMES COUNTY,
OHIO"
(War of the Rebellion--Official Records,
Series 1, Vol. XXIII;
Part I, Reports, pp. 395-396.)
Report of Col. Wm. Wallace, 15th Ohio
Infantry,
Commanding United States Forces in
Ohio.
COLUMBUS, June 20, 1863.
SIR:
I have the honor to submit my report of
the expedition un-
der my command, which left this city by
order of Brigadier-
General Mason, on Tuesday night, June
16, 1863, for the pur-
pose of suppressing an alleged
insurrection in Holmes County,
Ohio.
The forces under my command consisted of
230 exchanged
men from Camp Chase, 50 sharpshooters
from Camp Dennison,
1OO men of the Governor's guard and one
section of Captain
Neil's battery.
I disembarked at Lake Station (known as
Lakeville) on the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroad, about 6 a. m.,
June 17, and at 7 a. m. commenced the
march for Napoleon
(now Glenmont), about 12 miles distant, via Nashville.
I reached Napoleon about 4 p. m. where I
ascertained the
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