History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio, and representative citizens, Part 81

Author: Andrews, Martin Register, 1842-; Hathaway, Seymour J
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Chicago : Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1490

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Frank Hill, son of Hiram A. Ilill, born 1847, was appointed third sergeant of Com- pany A, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Ohio National Guards, Samuel S. Knowles, captain. and on July 23, 1864, was appointed commis- sary sergeant of the regiment.

Ephraim A. Hill, son of Daniel Y. Hill, served three months in Company .A. Eighty- seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and return-

ing enlisted in Battery K, Second Ohio Heavy Artillery, and served until April 15, 1865, when he died at Knoxville, Tennessee.

Alexander Hill, son of John Hill, served in the same company Van Il. Bukey enlisted in-the Eleventh West Virginia Infantry- October 16, 1861; was commissioned first lieutenant February, 1862; captain August, 1862; major March, 1863: lieutenant colonel August, 1863, colonel November, 1864; brig- adier general, by brevet, May, 1865.

John Bukey enlisted in Company D. Elev- enth West Virginia Infantry, and was promot- ed from sergeant, orderly, second lieutenant, to first lieutenant in January, 1865.

Joseph T. Bukey enlisted as a musician in Company D. Eleventh West Virgina Infan- try, and was afterward drum major of the reg- iment. In 1866 he enlisted for three years in Company .A, First United States dragoons ; served his term on the Pacific slope, and then re-enlisted in the Twenty-second United States Infantry, and was accidentally drowned at Sitka, Alaska, May 12, 1872.

CAPT. TIMOTHY BUELL was born Octo- | ber 18. 1768, at Killingworth, now Clinton, Connecticut, son of David Buell, of same place, came to Ohio June 15, 1789. and settled at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he is said to have built the first brick house in that city. Wishing to live near his friends and relatives, who had settled in Washington County, he returned to Marietta. When the conspiracy of Aaron Burr began to attract public attention, in 1806. the President of the United States sent out a confidential agent to Marietta to ascertain the true situation and relations between Burr, Blennerhassett, and the expedition then being fitted out. This agent became convinced, from what he saw, that the enterprise of Burr and Blennerhassett, if not treasonable, was at least alarming. He therefore went to Chil- licothe, and laid the matter before the Ohio Legislature, then in session: and on the 2nd of December procured an act to be passed, "au- thorizing the Governor to call out the militia on his warrant to any sheriff or militia officer, with power to arrest boats on the Ohio River,

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or men supposed to be engaged in this expedi- tion, who might be held to bail in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or imprisoned, and the boats confiscated." Under this act a com- pany of militia was called out, with orders to capture and detain the boats ( which were be- ing built about six miles above Marietta, on the Muskingum), and the provisions, with all others descending the Ohio under suspicious circumstances. This force was placed under command of Capt. Timothy Buell. One six- pound gun was placed in a battery on the river bank at Marietta, and pickets disposed at prop- er places along the shores to watch the river and give the alarm if any persons attempted to pass with the suspected boats. The disposi- tions of Caption Buell resulted in the capture of all but one of Mr. Blennerhassett's boats. which escaped during a very dark night.

After General Hull's surrender, the Brit- ish and Indians began to move southward from Detroit and infest the territory opened up by their victory, and in the spring of 1813 they gathered in force and laid siege to Fort Meigs. situated at the rapids of the Maumee. Gen- eral Harrison immediately made a requisition on Ohio for troops, and Governor Meigs called for mounted volunteers to hasten to the relief of the beleaguered garrison. Captain Buell immediately raised a company of mounted men, and on May 12, 1813. left Marietta for the rapids. Capt. Robert C. Barton, who was highly spoken of in the battle of Tippeca- noe, was lieutenant, and Manly Morse, ensign. After being some days on the march, they were met with instructions to return, as the enemy had retreated. Over 4,000 mounted men, in Ohio, turned out under this call, and all but a few were sent back. Governor Meigs arrived at his home in Marietta ( the same now owned by Hon. M. D. Follett ) about the last of May, and Captain Buell, on arriving at Marietta, drew up his men in front of the Gov- ernor's house and tendered their services for any expedition he might direct. The Govern- or responded in very complimentary terms to their promptness and patriotism in going to the relief of Fort Meigs. He observed that

he was the more gratified at their demonstra- tion of zeal in their country's cause, as it was the first specimen of public military spirit which had been exhibited in the county of Washington since the commencement of the war, That henceforth he augured a revival of a redeeming spirit of military energy worthy of the county which bears the name of the illus- trious Father of his Country. To those gen- tlemen who had aided the company in equip- ments he returned his sincerest thanks. Of those who had endeavored to discountenance the expedition, he observed that such merited what they must eventually receive, the con- tempt of all honorable men. The company was then honorably discharged.

On August 1, 1813, to meet a similar emer- gency at Fort Meigs, the mounted volunteers were again called upon, and they responded with the same readiness. Captain Buell gath- ered another company and went to the front, but before they had arrived at the scene of ac- tion the British and Indians had fled, and an order from General Harrison gave them his thanks and an "honorable discharge." This was the last demonstration of the British and their allies in the northwest. The victory of Commodore Perry, in September, 1813, com- pelled them to retire to Canada.

Capt. Timothy Buell and Alexander Mc- Connel were elected to represent the district composed of Morgan and Washington coun- ties in the Nineteenth General Assembly, 1820, and Captain Buell and William M. Dawes to represent the same district in the Twentieth General Assembly. Captain Buell was sheriff of the county for several years, being succeeded in that office by Capt. Alexander Hill, in 1815. He was also a magistrate for many years. Died February 6, 1837.

Captain Buell was a brother of Gen. Jo- seph Buell, and grandfather, on the maternal side, of Maj .- Gen. Don Carlos Buell. His children were: Eliza Buell, born at Marietta August 22, 1798, died August 3. 1823; Joseph H. Buell, born October 20, 1812; William Plummer Buell, born June 18, 1815: Milo M. Buell, born September 18, 1817; Hiram B.

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Buell, born in 1824: George D. Buell, born in malarial fever, and died December 21. 1812, 1826; and Columbia Buell born in 1828. Of at Fort Winchester. these, Eliza married Hon. Salmon D. Buell, Caleb Emerson was appointed his adminis- trator, and among his effects was a large as- sortment of law books, medical works and a general assortment of other works. April 9. 1816, who was the son of Hon. Sal- mon Buell, of Ithica, New York. Their chil- dren were: Gen. Don Carlos Buell born near Marietta, March 23, 1818: Sally M. Buell, born near Marietta February 26, 1820; and' Aurelia A. Buell, born near Marietta, Febru- ary 27, 1822, wife of Hon. William F. Curtis. of Marietta.

LIEUT. TIMOTILY E. DANIELSON. There is a degree of sadness connected with the life of this young officer who came to Marietta about the year 1804, from Brimfield, Connec- ticut. His father was Gen. Timothy Daniel- son, of Union, Connecticut, who died in 1791. The widow (his mother ), Eliza Danielson, married llon. William Eaton, of Brimfield, Connecticut. August 21, 1792.

Mr. Eaton had been for many years con- nected with the diplomatic service of the Unit- ed States, and stationed in the Barbary States.

Upon his return to this country, in 1803, he had promised young Timothy a position in his suite when he should return. Mr. Eaton however, changed his mind, and took out a younger brother, E. E. Danielson .*

This was a great disappointment to Tim- othy E. Danielson, and he left home for the West. arriving at Marietta shortly after the departure of his stepfather in 1804.

Great care and attention had been given to the education of the children of Mrs. Daniel- son, both by General Danielson and Mr. Ea- ton, and young Danielson turned his training to account by teaching school in Marietta for several years.

At the opening of the War of 1812, Daniel- son was commissioned as lieutenant in the reg- ular army, and July 29. 1812, he advertised for recruits-headquarters at Marietta. The recruits were taken for either three or five years. With what men he could raise he left for the front, and entered the Seventeenth United States Infantry. He was taken with

MAJ. HORACE NYE came to Ohio when a child, August, 1788, with his father, Col. Ich- abod Nye. From that time until his death Ohio was his home, and until 1833 his resi- dence was Marietta.

lle was the grandson of Gen. Benjamin Tupper, a soklier, and the son of Colonel Nye, also a soldier, and he was surrounded by men who put themselves under strict military dis- cipline during the Indian war, while living in the Campus Martius. Thus he became a sol- dier himself, and was all through his life noted for his military bearing and soldierly quali- ties.

Though but a child. he shared in the pri- vations and hardships and dangers of the garri- son, and at an early age began to share in the toils, and to form habits of endurance and energy.

His life was coeval with the first settlement of the State, and the history and experience of its tragic scenes and patient toils and heroic sufferings were as familiar to him as house- hold words.

He furnished many facts from memory to the historian, and published some valuable sketches of early times. In the summer of 1812 he was called into the service of his country as brigade major, in Gen. E. W. Tup- per's brigade of Ohio militia. This brigade was composed of troops mostly from Southern Ohio, and was called into service shortly be- fore the surrender of General Hull at Detroit. The men were ordered to the frontier-Ohio then being a frontier State-and spent most of the winter near Urbana and Mc Arthur's block-house. They suffered much from bad quarters, bad food, poor clothing and the se- verity of the winter. Later they were ad- vanced to Fort Meigs, where they remained until their return of service expired. The service rendered was important and severe.

'He was afterward. upon his return to this country, killed in a duel with a naval officer.

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Major Nye returned home in the spring of 1813, and during the following summer en- gaged successfully in business at Putnam, Ohio.

Few men ever lived who have established a better character for uprightness of purpose and unbending integrity. He scorned the idea of bending his principles to expediency or of smothering his honest convictions. He was a reader, a thinker and a keen observer of men. For 30 years he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and to know the right was with him to do it. Always the friend of the slave, he was an advocate of immediate emancipation.

In 1835 his life and property were threat- ened by a Zanesville mob. There was a lit- tle band of Abolitionists in Putnam, of which he was one, and when the mob threatened to burn the town, he saw no reason to change his views, but armed himself under the authority of the mayor, and purposed to fire at the word of command. He would have braved the dun- geon or the stake in defense of the inalienable rights of man.

He was born at Chesterfield, Massachu- setts, June 8, 1786, and died at Putnam, Ohio, February 15, 1859.

CAPT. JASON R. CURTIS was born in 1785 at Warren, Litchfield County, Connecticut, re- moved to Marietta in 1792, and married Mary Clark, daughter of Maj. John Clark. Capt. Curtis served during the War of 1812, as aid- de-camp of Governor R. J. Meigs, with the rank of captain. Jason R. Curtis, father of Hon. William F. Curtis, died in Marietta Sep- - tember 12, 1834.

CAPT. ROBERT C. BARTON came to Mari- etta during the War of 1812. We have not been able to obtain any facts as to him, except that he commanded a company under General. Harrison at the battle of Tippecanoe, and was mentioned by General Harrison in his report of that battle for gallant conduct. He was af- terward, during the same war, first lieutenant under Capt. Timothy Buell in a company of mounted volunteers, and was also on duty with Governor Meigs, probably as aid-de- camp.

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE CIVIL WAR.

CAUSES OF THE WAR -LEADERS, NORTH AND SOUTH, POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1860-POSI- TION OF THE PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY AS TO THE WAR-THE UNION BLUES RESPOND TO THE CALL FOR TROOPS-THE MILITIA SYSTEM OF OHIO-APPEAL TO THE GOVERNOR FOR AID -- CAMP PUTNAM ESTABLISHED-GOVERNOR DENNISON'S PLAN OF A CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFUL-M. & C. RAILROAD GUARDED-GRIM-VISAGED WAR-THE FIRST GREAT CALL TO ARMS-FIRST THREE YEARS' COMPANY FROM THE COUNTY CAMP TUPPER ESTABLISHED-MILITARY COMMITTEE APPOINTED-BEGINNING OF GOVERNOR TOD'S ADMINISTRATION -- FIRST VOLUNTEER KILLED IN BATTLE- SHILOH-WASHINGTON CITY IN DANGER-PARKERSBURG THREATENED-THE DRAFT- CAMP MARIETTA ESTABLISHED -- CORINTH, ANTIETAM AND SOUTH MOUNTAIN-DE- PARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA ESTABLISHED AT MARIETTA-EMANCIPATION-UNION LEAGUE-CHANCELLORSVILLE-GETTYSBURG-VICKSBURG -- THE MORGAN RAID-BUF- FINGTON'S ISLAND-THE MILITIA -- CHICKAMAUGA -- OHIO NATIONAL GUARD-ATLANTA CAMPAIGN -- MARCH TO THE SEA-SHENANDOAH VALLEY -- BATTLE YEAR, 1864-1865 -- CELEBRATION OF THE FALL OF THE REBELLION.

Reader, let us stand together on a crest of the Alleghanies, commanding a splendid pros- pect to the westward. It is a bright clear day in September, the year 1788. Here lies the course of the wagons of the mountains up from the east and down to the west. the grand thoroughfare of emigration, now scarcely be- gun westward. We see spread out before us a grand expanse of forest and stream. In the far distance from north to south is the Missis- sippi River. On the hither side, like a silver thread from the northeast to the southwest, winds the Ohio River. On the north, like burnished shields, lie the great lakes Erie, Hu- ron, Michigan and Superior, and spread out between these bounds, like an open scroll. lies the Northwest Territory. The pleasing fancy

cherished so long in Connecticut and Virginia that those old commonwealths owned strips of country from the Atlantic westward to the South Sea, or more familiarly the Pacific, have been exploded and abandoned, and the claims of those States in the Northwest Territory formally released.

Look at the vast expanse of forest in the foreground, undulating like the green waves of the ocean and traversed by silvery streams flowing to the Ohio or to the lakes. West- ward in the far distance the country breaks away from the forests and spreads out into broad savannahs, studded with groves, and beyond the eye detects the sheen of the Fa- ther of Waters.

This vast domain possesses the finest clim-

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ate of the continent. In a similar climate the human race has attained its highest develop- ment. Neither too hot or too cold, but finely tempered as a Damascus blade. Mother of energy, endurance, enterprise and civilization, this beautiful land lying before us will cer- tainly be fruitful and productive. Vast in extent, encumbered by the finest timber, the growth of centuries, it is now a wilderness. The primeval forest clothes it like a garment. The great valley of the Ohio falls away to the southwest with nothing to disturb its placid stillness but here and there an Inchan guiding his rude canoe.

Excepting a few settlements on the hither side of the Ohio River, the whole is one vast solitude-but hold, there at the junction of the Ohio and Muskingum, the blue smoke culrs up, and a clearing appears. The white man has come to take possession, and he has come to stay; now through the aisles of the stately forest is heard the woodman's axe. The Indian pauses on the trail while hunting the bear, the deer, or the wild turkey, to listen ; and he creeps through the thicket to obtain a view of the newcomers, who are soon to dis- possess him and bring a nobler race to take possession. But, reader, think not these fer- tile acres, fraught with such great possibilities, have been overlooked and forgotten.

This settlement is but the result of a cause that went before. That cause was as subtle in its results as the falling dew or gentle rain, and came as silently. Every inch of land, from the great lakes on the north to the Ohio on the south, is held as firmly as though caught by hooks of steel, and every man, woman and child destined to be born in and to occupy and cultivate this land can not, if they would, es- cape its influence. The Ordinance of 1787, the second great charter of American progress and liberty, has silently gone into possession. Law, enthroned in a temple built without hands, has assumed sovereignty over a vast domain, having as yet but few occupants, but waiting for the teeminig millions of the fu- ture. "Law it is," as the Hindoo says, "which is without name of color, or hands or feet,

which is the smallest of the least and the larg- est of the large; all, and knowing all things; which hears without ears; sees without eyes; moves without feet, and seizes without hands."

Let us now turn to the southward, there lie Virginia and Kentucky soon to be settled from eastern Virginia and the Carolinas by a brave and hardy race, but wedded to the insti- tution of human slavery. There is but the narrow Ohio between the north land and the south, yet even at this early date the forerun- ners of the millions to come are separated very widely in sentiment by the institution referred to. And their children shall grow up with the cherished sentiments of their parents, in- stilled into their minds at their mother's knee, to be intensified by each political contest, and confirmed as time advances in their various opinions. Time will show to what dread ex- tent two great contending ideas will carry the sections. Oh! pine on the crest of storm- swept Alleghany sigh, and ye mothers in the far off clearings weep for the evil days to come, and that so fair a patrimony should be destined to witness so fierce a struggle between such noble men, children of a common broth- erhood,

When this soft turf, that rivulet's sands, Were trampled by a hurrying crowd, And fiery hearts and armed hands Encountered in the battle-cloud.

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave- Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet. Upon the soil they fought to save.

CAUSES OF THE WAR.

It is necessary in writing the military his- tory of the first county and the oldest settle- ment in the Northwest Territory to bring prominently to the front that great ordinance which has so largely shaped the destinies of the populous commonwealths of Ohio, Illi- nois, Michigan and Wisconsin, especially as that ordinance contained the germinal cause that made the States named side with the gov- ernment, when the crisis of revolution came.

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Let us therefore examine very briefly that part of the ordinance which pertains to the sub- ject in hand-the cause of the War of the Re- bellion. That it was no stidden growth all will readily admit. The men, south of the Ohio and north of the same, were generally of a common origin, Americans all. It will not do to say that these States would have gone with the North in 1861, had there never been such an ordinance as the one referred to. In- diana, Illinois, and Ohio, at least, could have been Slave States as easily and consistently as Virginia and Kentucky, having substantial- ly the same climate, the same products and therefore the same demand for slave labor ; but the fundamental law governing the terri- tory, out of which all these States were erected prohibited slavery, and thus each State Con- stitution contained a clause of similar prohib- ition.

The article of the ordinance referred to is as follows :

ARTICLE 6. There shall be neither slavery nor in- voluntary servitude in the said Terrotory otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or serices is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service, as aforesaid.

The Jeffersonian ordinance of 1784, pro- viding for the government of Kentucky and the Southwest, contained nothing in regard to slavery; an amendment had been offered, putting an end to the peculiar institution after the year 1800, but failed of passage by one vote, the delegate of one State, New Jersey, being temporarily absent. On what a slender thread often hang the destinies of millions! The Resolutions of 1798, as passed by the Kentucky Legislature were pre-eminently 3 "States Rights" document. They were a nat- ural outgrowth of the doctrine of slavery ; and as that institution increased so did the "States Rights" heresy.

We quote the first resolution which is a sample of all the others :

ciple of unlimited submission to their General Govern- ment. but that by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution of the United States, and of amendments thereto. they constituted a General Government for special purposes-delegated to that Government certain definite powers, reserving. each State to itself, the resi- duary mass of right to their own self-government ; and that whensoever the General Government assumes un- delegated powers, its acts are unauthoritatve, void, and of no force; that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and a- an integral party, its co-States forming as to itself, the other party; that the Government, created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself: since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its power ; but that as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge fc- itself. as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.

Similar resolutions were passed by the Leg- islature of Virginia the year following. They were afterward repealed, but not until they had largely sown the seed of rebellion and revo- lution.

In the earlier days of the republic, the great question of slavery, and especially of "States Rights," had already been formulated and stated in terms that were not materially al- tered during all the great political contests that followed.

Patrick Henry, June 4. 1788, in the Virgin- ia Convention called to ratify the new Con- stitution of the United States, said :

That this is a consolidated government is demon- strably clear : and the danger of such a government is, tu my mind, very striking. I have the highest venera- tion for those gentlemen (the framers of the constitu- tion ) : but. sir, give me leave to demand, What right had they to say, We, the people? My political curiosity. exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public wel- fare, leads me to ask who authorized them to say, II's. the people, instead of ac, the States? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact. it must be one great, consolidated National government of the peo- ple of all the States. * I need not take much pains to show that the principles of this system are ex- tremely pernicious, impolitic and dangerous.

Washington, in his Farewell Address. said :

Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country ha. a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to yon in your national capacity. must always exalt the just pride of

Resolved, That the several States composing the ' patriotism more than any appellation derived from local United States of America are not united on the prin- 1 discriminations. 33

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Alexander Hamilton, June 18, 1787, in the debate on the new constitution, said :

The general power, whatever be its form, if it pre- serves itself, must swallow up the State governments, otherwise it would be swallowed up by them. It is against all the principles of good government to rest the requisite powers in such a body as Congress. Two sovereignties cannot exist within the same limits.

The people of the States formed out of the Northwest were by education and tradition, and more especially by virtue of the moulding power of a great fundamental law, opposed to slavery and to the doctrine of "States Rights." They naturally went with the North; and we believe we are justified in saying that the North could not have succeeded in the war for the Union if the States named had re- fused to cooperate.

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History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio, and representative citizens, Part 81

Author: Andrews, Martin Register, 1842-; Hathaway, Seymour J Publication date: 1902 Publisher: Chicago : Biographical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1490

Author: Andrews, Martin Register, 1842-; Hathaway, Seymour J
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Chicago : Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1490