380                         HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

David Critchfield, mustered Sept. 27, 1864, Co. G, 57th Regiment.
Felix B. Danner, mustered Sept. 20, 1864, Co. 0, 57th Regiment.
Aaron Killion, mustered Sept. 21, 1864, Co. 0, 57th Regiment.
Jasper L. Killion, mustered Sept. 21, 1864, Co. G, 57th Regiment.
Aaron S. Simonson, mustered Sept. 21, 1864, Co. G, 57th Regiment.
John E. Slack, mustered Sept. 19, 1864, Co. 0., 57th Regiment.
Paul Rodenberger, mustered Dec. 20, 1864, Co. K, 59th Regiment.
Alexander Wolford, mustered Oct. 16, 1864, Co. I, 87th Regiment.

                    Deserters from the Draft of July 18, 1864.

    The following men in Clay county were reported as deserters from
the draft of July 18, 1864, either failing to report or deserting before mus-
tered in:
William H. Brenton.     Amos Feters.            William Morgan.
Isaac Barr.             William Fry.            William Money.
William Butler.         Samuel Haynes           Abraham D. Miller.
Lewis Bramitt.          William H. Huff.        Franklin Neir.
Henry Bell.             James Hunt.             Solomon Osborn.
Cornelius Bence.        George W. Halbert.      Peter J. Poff.
Jesse Coombs.           Marion Lamay.           Addison Ritchie.
William Chatham.        Jeremiah Lewis.         John Sappenfield.
William Chapman.        John Laughtree.         C. Stitt.
John C. Cooper.         John Laughtner.         Henry Webb.
David A. Davis.         Joseph McCann.          William White.
George H. Eversole.

                    Aid to Soldiers’ Families.
    At a special session of the board of commissioners held July 25,
1862, an order was made allowing ten dollars out of the county treasury
to the family of each who had enlisted or might thereafter enlist in the
service of the United States on the call of the president for 300,000 vol-
unteers, on condition that such families were left in destitute circum-
stances. C. W. Thompson and D. W. Bridges were appointed by the
board to determine upon the claims made for such allowance, and
make their recommendations to the county auditor fororder on county
treasurer.
    The firm of Wingate and Black at about the same time gave out
that they would give to the head of each family volunteering in Wash-
ington township the sum of ten dollars on the certificate of the captain
that they had been mustered into the service.
    Elisha Adamson also tendered to a committee all the products of his
farm for the season of 1862 for distribution among the families of the
volunteers in Washington township, reserving only the supply for his
own family.
    Many voluntary subscriptions and donations were made throughout
the county by private individuals and societies in aid of the families of
soldiers in their respective localities of which no public accounting was
ever made.
    A special session of the board of county commissioners was held on
the 30th day of January, 1865, to consider petitions filed asking for an
appropriation in aid of enlistments to meet the contingency of further
drafts upon the able-bodied men of the county, all of whom not yet in
the service being needed in the productive industries of the county. The
board of commissioners responded by ordering an issue of $100,000 in
bonds, payable in three annual installments—April 1st, 1866, 1867, 1868,
bearing six per cent interest.