Ohio Governor David Tod calls out the Ohio militia.

July 12, 1863

Ohio Governor David Tod called out the Ohio militia to protect the southern counties from Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan's Raiders. The militia was slow to organize and did not offer any real resistance to Morgan until July 18.

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