Back during the Civil War , some of the 38th Regiment boys heard a man say if he "went to Washington he would kill old Abe Lincoln and tramp the flag into the street", and was caught on the run by the boys at the Wabash bridge and saved at the last moment by Col. James Steedman on a spectacular gallop from Defiance. As they were about dropping the man off the bridge with a rope around his neck. Also he kept the boys from slinging the contents of the Defiance Democrat News paper into the canal, and would likely have "ducked" Judge Greene (the editor) there if they found him. Democrat office was a three roomed, one story framed building, just across the street south of the present (Crescent News Office),
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