HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                              379

rich, Sugar Ridge. The enumeration of the townships is shown by the
following figures, the first column indicating the number subject to mili-
tary duty, the second the number of volunteers, and the third the total
military strength of the townships:
Township.—
Posey................206    155     361
Dick Johnson.........210    91      301
Van Buren............174    93      267
Jackson..............187    77      264
Perry................133    102     235
Lewis................129    97      226
Harrison.............229    142     371
Washington...........197    164     361
Cass..................81    30      111
Sugar Ridge...........95    98      193
                    _____   _____   _____
                    1,641   1,049   2,690

    Notice was then given that Dr. James N. Wardlaw, examining sur-
geon for the county, would open a temporary office at the court house,
Bowling Green, Monday, September 1, for the examination of applicants
claiming exemption because of disabilities. So numerous were the appli-
cations that the examinations were protracted during the week; practic-
ally fifty percent of the enrolled subject to duty having appeared and asked
for examination, and three hundred and fifty-six certificates of exemption
were issued.
    When the first draft of the war was ordered, in the fall of 1862, Clay
county was exempt from its execution, having already filled the measure
of its quota by previous enlistments, having sent to the front for the first
eighteen months of the war forty percent of its eligible and acceptable
population. Sugar Ridge was the banner township, not only of the
county but of the state, having at that time already contributed fifty-one
percent of its population subject to military service.

                Drafted Men from Clay County.
            (As indicated in the Adjutant General’s Report.)
James P. McKeg, mustered Sept. 29, 1864, Co. E, 9th Regiment.
Loreuzo D. Casteel, mustered Sept. 20, 1864, Co. C, 12th Regiment.
Chauncey Shearer, mustered Dec. 7, 1864, Co. C, 12th Regiment.
Scott Chambers, mustered Dec. 20, 1864, Co. F, 29th Regiment.
John Lee, mustered Dec. 16, 1864, Co. 0, 29th Regiment.
Oliver Allen, mustered Dec. 20, 1864, Co. I, 29th Regiment.
Samuel Sutton, mustered Dec. 8, 1864, Co. I, 29th Regiment.
Legrand Howard, mustered Dec. 12, 1864, Co. A, 35th Regiment.
Daniel McCammon, mustered Dec. 13, 1864, Co. A, 35th Regiment.
Thomas Holland, mustered Nov. 12, 1864, Co. A, 38th Regiment.
Anthony Holland, mustered Nov. 12, 1864, Co. A, 38th Regiment.
Elias Johnson, mustered Nov. 12, 1864, Co. A, 38th Regiment.
Silas Odle, mustered Nov. 10, 1864, Co. A, 38th Regiment.
Thomas Freshour, mustered Sept. 29, 1864, Co. A, 42d Regiment.
Darlington Gilbert, mustered Oct. 20, 1864, Co. A, 42d Regiment.
David Steward, mustered Sept. 28, 1864, Co. B, 42d Regiment.
Andrew Wolf, mustered Sept. 21, 1864, Co. D, 51st Regiment.
John Schraer, mustered Sept. 22, 1864, Co. K, 51st Regiment.
Joseph Trump, mustered Sept. 20, 1864, Co. K, 51st Regiment.
Christian Trump, mustered Sept. —, 1864, Co. K, 51st Regiment.
Reason Caton, mustered Sept. 21, 1864, Co. C, 57th Regiment.
Charles Caton, mustered Sept. 21, 1864, Co. C, 57th Regiment.
Reuben B. Cook, mustered Sept. 21, 1864, Co. D, 57th Regiment.
James H. Kibbin, mustered Sept. 21, 1864, Co. D, 57th Regiment.