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��but little more than one-half returned, the remainder being left on the fields of Mexico, or on the way.
Capt. Weaver entered the late war, where he evinced the same courage that had led him in the war against Mexico, being the first man to raise a company in Hardin County, to which place he had removed the year before it broke out.
��The three companies, McLaughlin's, Ford's and Weaver's, were the only organized bodies that went from this county. Other companies contained soldiers whose place of residence was in Richland's limits, but who went elsewhere to enlist. The experience of each company was, in the main, the same, that narrated showing the general outlines of their marches in that war.
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