Campbell County Guard
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 24 May 1861, page 3
NEWPORT NEWS
It is estimated that there are three thousand men enrolled in the collective Home Guards of Campbell County. Their places of rendezvous are as follows:
Newport, Brooklyn and Jamestown
At Four mile District
Two mile House
Metcalf's (Union School House)
Alexandria
On the Licking River
The various companies are drilling nearly every night.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 20 June 1861, page 3
NEWPORT NEWS
THOSE ARMS-It has been represented to us that the arms intended by the United States Government for the use of the Home Guards of our city will be delivered to them by an agent of the Government on Friday next.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 22 June 1861, page 2
NEWPORT NEWS
ARMS FOR THE HOME GUARDS-The arms so long about about for the Home Guards have at length arrives. They are here, but whence they came or how they came we are not advised; we only know that the members by paying one dollar each, can get a gun.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 1 September 1861, page 3
NEWPORT NEWS
Grand Union Demonstration in Newport Tomorrow
There will be a display of the Unconditional Union military companies, or Home Guards, together with the Unconditional Union Clubs and citizens of Campbell County, at the Court house in Newport, Kentucky, on Monday next, at two o'clock PM at which time a grand procession will be formed, Union Clubs and citizens in the following order:
1. The Newport Garrison Band
2. Captain Artsman Company Home Guards
3. Captain Stansberry's Company Home Guards
4. Jamestown Company Home Guards
5. Union Clubs and citizens by four
6. Captain Jackson's band
7. Captain Jackson's Company Home Guards
8.-9-10 Turner Hall Company
11. Brooklyn Company
12. Other Union Companies
13. Left of the Line, the German Turner Rifle Company
The lines will march to the Court house Square at which place the troops and citizens will be addressed by Mark Monday, Esq. Oliver W Root Esq. and John P Jackson Esq. Ira Root, Marshal of the day; J T Maphet, First Assistant Marshal, attached to the leading nilitary companies: Jacob Hawthorn, Second Assistant Marshal, attached to the rear military companies; John Raipe, Third Assistant Marshal attached to civil column in the center. The whole line in command of Captain P T Swain of the United States Army.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 4 April 1865, page 2
NEWPORT NEWS
SKIRMISH WITH GUERRILLAS-The Campbell County Home Guards had a little brush with a party of guerrillas, on Ripple Creek, about two miles south of Cold Spring, on Saturday night last. The guerrillas were scattered but none killed so far as is known.