Excerpt from Ohio's Preparations for the War When our comrade, the Recorder, notified me to prepare a paper for the next meeting, a young com panion sitting by my side (general Tom Wood) interposed a caution that I should go no further back in my reminiscences than the day of the Declaration of Independence, which was the limit of his own memory, and heeding his kindly admonition I begin my story but a short period before the War of the Rebellion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.