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Source:
History of Wayne County, Ohio
from the days of the pioneers and first settlers to the present time
Indianapolis, Ind.: R. Douglass, 
1878

CHAPTER XXIX.

Wayne County Soldiers in the Mexican War
Pg. 759
(Contributed by Sharon Wick)
 

     May 12, 1846, a bill passed both Houses of Congress of the United States, declaring that war with Mexico already existed, by act of that power, and authorizing 50,000 volunteers, and an appropriation toward carrying on the war of $10,000,000.  On the following day, May 13, 1846, President James K. Polk formally declared war against Mexico, owning to the disturbed relations existing between the two countries, and the measures and policies of peace being exhausted.  On September 21-23 the battle of Monterey was fought,  the first in importance after the proclamation of war.  In pursuance of the call for 50,000 men the Nation responded.
     On Tuesday, May 26, 1846, the 4th Brigade, 9th Division Ohio Militia, was hastily mustered into Wooster, for the purpose of encouraging volunteering.  Over thirty that day signed the rolls.  Captain Peter Burkett, of the Bristol Light Artillery, and David Moore, of the "Wooster Guards," were present with orders to enlist a company.  The officers at the head of the appended list were chosen to command the company, which consisted of eighty-five men, and on Tuesday morning, June 9, 1846, they started for Massilon.
     On the morning of their departure General Coulter, on behalf of the Wooster Cadets, presented them a handsom flag, making an appropriate speech, which was responded to by Captain Moore.  Before leaving they were mustered on the northeast corner of the Public Square, when the members of the company were presented with Testaments by the ladies of Wooster.  The company left Massilon on Thursday evening, June 11, on board two canal-boats, en route for Camp Washington, near Cincinnati.  They broke camp at the aforesaid place early in the morning of the 3d day of July, and that day left Cincinnati on the New Era and Tuscaloosa for New Orleans.  They encamped for some time not far from that city, on the old Jackson battle ground.
     James D. Robison, M. D., of Wooster, was the first surgeon of the regiment, leaving Cincinnati July 3, for Mexico.  They served in the 3d Ohio Regiment, commanded by Colonel Samuel Curtis, a graduate of West Point, and for several years a lawyer in Wooster, and with George W. McCook as Lieutenant-Colonel; The treaty of peace was ratified at Queretaro, May 30, 1848.

     The following is the Wayne county list of volunteers for the Mexican war:
 

SOLDIERS OF 1812

     The following is the list of the pensioners of the war of 1812 living in Wayne county, Ohio, as appears on the record at Columbus: