103 ly six hundred men to the 51st Regiment. As soon as the 51st had gone to the front, the fair grounds were again occupied as recruiting grounds, and in a few weeks our county raised four additional companies, which became companies B, C, E and K, of the Eightieth. They left Camp Meigs for the stirring scenes of the war, February. 1862. Many other companies and parts of companies were raised or recruited in Tuscarawas County. To give the exact nnmber of soldiers who entered the service from this county would be impossible, but the list was probably between 3,000 and 3,500—a record of which the county may well feel proud. The women of the county were earnest and faithful in their ministrations to the soldiers. From the beginning to the close of tne war an organized system was maintained by them through which the soldiers in the field and in the hospital were supplied with many comforts and delicacies which the government could not supply. John Morgan made his famous raid in 1863, and in the latter part of July it was reported that he was within a few miles of the county
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