100 The War of the Rebellion:—With justifiable pride, the citizens of our county may turn to the record of the sons of Tuscarawas in the Wai* of the Rebellion. When, on the 14th of April, 1861, the tidings of the fall of Ft. Sumter flashed over the country, it—pto- it produced in Tuscarawas county the Same conviction of approaching and appalling warfare, that was felt throughout the North. When President Lincoln immediately afterward issued his call for 75,000 volunteers to . / suppress the rebellion, our citizens manifested the same unbounded loyalty to ihe . Government that pervaded the whole country ' • north of Mason and Dixon’s line. .Whatever of better political factions and quarrels had disturbed our citizens during these stormy times of turmoil, were at once laid aside, and with one voice united in patriotic denuncia- . tion of the enemy which threatened to sever the bond of union between the sisterhood of States. The nation’s danger and preservation was the only theme of conversation and subject for action, and within a few days the organization of companies was commenced in all parts of the county. On Friday, April 19, a few posters were put up in New Phila
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