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HAMILTON MEN IN KENTUCKY REGIMENTS.

A number of companies recruited in this county, which could not be received for the three-months' service, rendezvoused spontaneously at the Methodist camp-meeting ground, on the Colerain pike, eleven miles from the city (Camp Colerain). Among these were the Valley guards, recruited in and about Clifton, Cumminsville, and Carthage, of which the following named were officers:
 

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Flamen BALL, jr.
First Lieutenant W. H. HICKOCK.
Second Lieutenant Frederick COOK.
 

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant John JOYCE.
Sergeant Henry HAYWARD.
Sergeant William SCANLAN.
Sergeant S. J. LAWRENCE.
Corporal John SHAW.
Corporal C. DRIER.
Corporal Henry JESSAN.

Colonel P. J. SULLIVAN was recruiting a regiment in Cincinnati, and finding it could not be received at Camp Harrison, marched a number of his companies, about eight hundred men in all, to the camp-meeting ground. They included the Rough and Ready guards, Captain SPELLMYER; the Miami guards, Captain BOYER; the Zouave cadets, Captain Joseph A. STACY; the Beck guards, Captain BECK; the Fulton Continentals, Captain David JOHNS; and the Union artillery, Captain Joseph WHITTLESEY. The several companies subsequently went to Camp Clay, where they were joined by a company from Louisville, for which no provision was made in Kentucky, the governor of that State having declined to furnish the men asked from that State.  Patriotic Ohio, however, supplied the deficiency in great part; and President LINCOLN, upon the solicitations of judge CHASE and other Ohioans, consented to receive as the First and Second Kentucky regiments the organizations effected at Camp Clay. They were equipped and prepared for the field at the expense of this State, but were in time recognized by, the authorities of Kentucky, who issued commissions to their officers. They were as follows:
 

FIRST KENTUCKY INFANTRY. FIELD AND STAFF.

Colonel James N. GUTHRIE.
Lieutenant Colonel D. H. ENYART.
Major Bartholomew LOPER.
Quartermaster Captain Gilbert CLEMMENS.
 

SECOND KENTUCKY INFANTRY. FIELD AND STAFF.

Colonel William E. WOODRUFF.
Lieutenant Colonel George W. NEFF.
Major Thomas G. SEDGWICK.
Quartermaster Captain Joseph BLUNDELL.

By far the larger part of these, like the men of the regiments, were Hamilton county citizens-Cincinnatians. The commands saw their first service in the brigade of General Jacob D. COX, in the army of West Virginia. They served a longer term than  the period of original enlistment, and made very creditable records in the field.