Post edited 7:20 pm – November 20, 2009 by Robert L Mohl

I've several comments to add; will bundle them here, perhaps later spread them out by topic.

Except for the murder or execution in Jasper, Hunt Morgan's gang was reportedly more considerate overall than many of the Yanks away from home who went on sprees. But subsistence thieving the Rebels definitely did.
The Miller farm, my great-uncle and aunt's place in Brown County, Ohio, lost not only several of those proverbial pies cooling on a window sill to Hunt Morgan and gang but a prized, matched pair of white Belgian draft horses. After the war my uncle received word to come to the courthouse in Cincinnati to get his horses – part of a large array of left-behinds. Stunned that the horses were alive, my uncle responded that he had no bill of sale to show that they were his. He was astonished to hear, "Everyone in the Ohio Valley says they're yours. Just come pick them up."

Pacifism: advocacy of negotiation before the war.
Martin Crain, a Portsmouth attorney, mid-nineteenth century, felt strongly that matters which looked as though they might lead to a war between the states, could and should be confronted in increased dialog. Passionately and repeatedly he pointed out that the cost in human life would be staggering and the loss of resources was not only stupid stewardship but would sink the nation into a depression. His audiences were increasingly resistant. I've transcribed Crain's diary for Scioto County Historical Society and have done period-costume portrayals of Martin.
As the person who opened Scioto County's "1810 House" to the genpub as a local history museum, I'm looking to do interpretive displays on the Civil War era in commemoration of the sesqui…
and so this is a call for ideas on how to be as high impact as possible on a shoestring! – R. L. Mohl, Portsmouth.