Chapter IX. A COLLEGE DIVIDED: 1861-65

  To the Diamond Anniversary Volume (Oxford, Ohio, 1909) Colonel David W. McClung, Miami, 1854, contributed a chapter, "Miami in the War." James B. Falconer's diary pictures Miami student life 1861-63. A description of Oxford in 1862 by Richard Butler, editor of the Oxford Citizen, is included in R. J. McGinnis, Oxford Town (Oxford, Ohio, 1930). Edwin W. Brown's "Reminiscences of an Ohio Volunteer," edited by Philip D. Jordan and Charles M. Thomas, in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, XLVIII (1939), 304-23, is the narrative of an Oxford youth who joined the "University Rifles," which became Company B of the 20th Ohio Infantry. The first volume of Whitelaw Reid, Ohio in the War (2 vols.; New York, 1868), includes biographical sketches of Miami men who held high military rank: Robert C. Schenck, Minor Millikin, Ben P. Runkleand R. N. Adams; the second volume contains the roster of the 20th Ohio Infantry, along with other Ohio regiments. R. W. McFarland's narrative of the pursuit of Morgan's raiders appears in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, XVII (1908), 243-47. The account of McFarland's student who had been one of Morgan's men appears in the Miami University Bulletin, January 1930. Robert N. Adams' "My First Company," an address read April 11, 1905, tells of the forming of the University Rifles, of farewell ceremonies in Oxford and of entertaining for Hamilton, where the Northern volunteers parted from their Southern companions and classmates. An address to the Alumni Association, "Miami in the Civil War," by Stephen Cooper Ayres of the Class of 1861, was printed in the Miami University Bulletin, October 1906.