During the Summer of 1861 a number of other organizations were begun, but no other regiment than the Thirty-fifth went out from this county that season. Captain Peter Murphy organized a company of some sixty rank and file for State service in Liberty Township. They were all provided with uniforms and performed their tactical operations with skill and accuracy. On the 16th of May the Butler Pioneers reached ninety men, who had enlisted for three years. They left on the seventeenth for Columbus, going to Camp Jackson. There proved to be a misunderstanding about the orders to move, and they returned to Camp Hamilton at midnight. On the 1st of June, Second Lieutenant F.M. LEFLAR was the recipient of a sword, given him by his friends in Hamilton. The presentation speech was made by Robert CHRISTY. Mr. LEFLAR responded briefly as follows:

Sir, this valuable present indicates a feeling of respect and affection for me of which I feel altogether unworthy. It creates within me a feeling of pleasure and gratitude which I am unable properly to express. Be assured that it will inspire me with renewed courage. In the defense of our country I shall endeavor to use this sword in a manner that will be no disgrace to its liberal and patriotic donors.

June 9th the Butler Pioneers went to Camp Jackson, Columbus. Previously they were entertained by M.C. RYAN and Dr. MCELWEE.

Mr E.G. DYER forwarded one hundred dollars to the Jackson Guards, stationed at Washington, to be divided among the men, which was done.

Company F, Second Regiment, were quartered on the 24th of June at Grafton, Virginia. On the way they were treated with great kindness. At one village the people turned out in crowds, and bountifully supplied the soldiers with bread and butter, cakes, pies, and other delicacies. On their way they met a company form Oxford. In West Virginia they had their first experience in a march of any length. They found the accouterments were heavy. It was pretty hard work to carry a knapsack as full as it would hold, and forty rounds of ammunition, with a belt for bayonet and caps, a haversack with two days' rations, a plate, knife, fork, cup, and spoon, and gun weighing ten pounds; this formed a good load for a strong man.

A company called Anderson Grays was organized and uniformed in Hamilton as a reserve company of Ohio Volunteers. It was under the command of Captain Stone, of the First Ward, and exhibited remarkable proficiency. On the 8th of August, 1861, the Butler Pioneers, or Company A, Twenty-sixth Ohio, were at Summersville, West Virginia. They had seen some service. The company had volunteered to break up a nest of rebels, some twenty miles from the regimental camp. They were gone three days, returning successfully and bringing back with them two prisoners of WISE's army, one a lieutenant. General GARRISON was getting up a battalion of infantry. His camp was established on the grounds of William BECKETT, south of the depot. The first company was nearly full. As fast as the companies were filled up they were to be sent to Camp Fremont, at St. Louis.

September 12th C. H. MURRAY had over fifty recruits for Captain WHITE's Cavalry Company, Second Regiment Ohio Cavalry. Wilkeson BEATTY and J. A. ZELLER had begun recruiting a company for the Fiftieth Regiment. Robert CULLEN had received authority to raise a company for the Fiftieth. A. J. LEWIS had also received the same authority.

Captain MARGEDANT, of the Engineering Corps, won the most favorable mention from the press for his enthusiasm, personal exposure, and admirable services in reconnoitering, at constant personal risk, the enemy's lines. Forty men were in the Ninth Regiment which left under Captain MARGEDANT, and about twenty-five men, under Lieutenant William H. MILLER, attached to the Twelfth. It also contributed about forty men to the regular army.

Companies were in process of formation, on the 19th of September, as follows:
Infantry.--Captain BEATTY, Captain HUBER, Captain A. J. LEWIS, Captain C. D. SMITH, Captain CULLEN.
Cavalry.--Captain WHITE, Captain William MOORE.

Charles MURRAY's company went to Camp Dick Corwine on the 26th of September with nearly a full company of cavalry. This was the fourteenth company from the county.

A national fast was observed on the 26th of September, 1861.

The company of cavalry which left Hamilton for Camp Corwine held an election on the 28th of September for officers, with the following result: Clement MURPHY, Captain; C. H. MURRAY, First Lieutenant; and Alexander C. ROSSMAN, Second Lieutenant.

From Hamilton several families sent more than one member to the army. Among them were four sons of James WHITTAKER; three sons of Mrs. CASTATOR; W. H. H. KIMBEL and two sons; J. HOUSER and two sons; L. W. MORRIS and two sons. Henry S. EARHART had two sons in the army.

Colonel L. D. CAMPBELL was appointed colonel of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, and a recruiting office was opened at Miami Hall.

Recruits were taken in Hamilton for the Martin Guards of the Fifty-eighth Regiment. N. C. McLEAN, Colonel; William H. MARTIN, of the Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, Lieutenant Colonel; and Robert REILY, of Cincinnati, Major. W. T. TIBBITTS was the authorized recruiting agent.

The recruiting for the Sixty-ninth progressed rapidly.

Louis Ferree BERRY, son of Philip and Rachel S. BERRY, died at Camp Gauley, West Virginia, of congestive fever. He was in the three months' service, and afterwards enlisted for the three years' service. He served in a number of skirmishes and displayed a gallantry and coolness wonderful in one so young. He was probably the youngest of the victims from this county in the civil war, lacking, at the time of his death, one month of sixteen years of age.

Captain MURPHY's company of cavalry visited Hamilton on the 6th of November, and were handsomely entertained by the Sixty-ninth.

Robert CULLEN, captain, was engaged in Hamilton in recruiting men for MEAGHER's ZOUAVES, Fiftieth Regiment, to be composed exclusively of Irishmen.

John FITCH, a member of Company D, Thirty-ninth Regiment, died in the hospital at Camp Foster, near Macon, Missouri, on the 29th of November, 1861, aged twenty-four. He was from Butler County. He was buried with honors. Colonel GROESBECK led the regiment to the graveyard, three volleys were fired over his grave, and the chaplain, Rev. B. W. CHIDLAW, made an eloquent address and offered up a fervent prayer.

Eleven hundred and forty-one men were enlisted in Butler County under the calls of the first year.

The civil war had many opponents in this county, and the first year had not passed without vigorous protests from them. The first burst of enthusiasm had silenced every voice, but in the course of two or three months objectors could again be heard in every part of the county. The Democratic party was divided into two camps, but the peace faction obtained the preponderating influence in the convention, which was duly held on the 2d of August, and they used their power. M. N. MAGINNIS was the leading spirit. He introduced a set of resolutions denouncing the war and reaffirming the principles of the resolutions of 1798, of the most ultra kind. They were warmly received, and were passed. But the sober sense of the party asserted itself afterwards, and the convention reassembled on the 21st, at which the previous resolutions were disavowed, and a more moderate series were passed. Many of those who had not been present previously were on hand, and the yeomanry were also in attendance, and it is safe to say that the latter meeting more thoroughly reflected the feelings of the Democracy than the former one did. There were then two newspapers published in Hamilton which were nominally Democratic, but they really differing as far as the poles. In the one controlled by Dr. McELWEE the most undisguised denunciations of the war, its leaders and the abolitionists, were to be found. To be a friend of the Union, as it was likely to be reconstructed, was bad enough; but to have a sympathy for a man with a colored skin was enough to cause a citizen's name to be written down among the most infamous of the human race. The Union Party, as the Republicans entitled themselves for the campaign, appealed to every patriotic sentiment of the country, and canvassed each township with great spirit, and came very near carrying the election. Two of the ticket were elected, the rest being defeated.

The Sixty-ninth Regiment was not wholly from this county. Besides Butler, it counts upon its lists the names of Darke, Montgomery, Preble, Harrison, and Fairfield. The first call for recruits was as follows:

TO ARMS! TO ARMS!