The History of Warren County, Ohio

Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 23 Oct 2004

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When the dread alarm of war was sounded throughout our land, the youth of this township, with those from other parts of the country, responded promptly to the Nation's call to arms, unmindful of the fact that they were espousing a cause which "hung in the balance," and that many of our best men entertained grave doubts of our ability to cope with the enemy, and maintain our National supremacy. They thus gave the lie to the taunt that they were mere "hirelings." All they asked to know was that our flag was in peril. And in the long and bloody struggle which followed, in the "times which tried men's souls," when rebellion, like a huge anaconda, was striving to crush out our National life, they were ever found true to their trust, found wherever duty called, and. on many a sanguinary field of battle, they, with brave hearts, upheld their country's honor.

Many of the bravest sacrificed their noble lives on the altar of their country. Both the battle-field and the foul prison-pen claimed their victims from among the youth of Clear Creek Township. Some of them lie in unknown graves in the far South, but they need no marble shaft to mark their last resting-place; their memories are enshrined in the hearts of a grateful people, and their heroic deeds are written on the roll of fame in characters of living light.

We regret that we have not been able to procure a list of the soldiers furnished by this township—at least a list of those who gave up their lives in the cause; but we have found it impossible to obtain anything like an accurate list, and have, therefore, deemed it advisable not to attempt to give any.