The History of Union County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, towns military record;, Part 71

Author: Durant, Pliny A. [from old catalog]; Beers, W. H., & co., Chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, W. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1254

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The ambulance depot, to which the wounded are carried or directed for immediate treatment, is generally established at the most convenient building nearest the field of battle. A red flag marks its place, or the way to it, to the conductors of the ambulances and to the wounded who can walk.

The active ambulances follow the troops engaged, to succor the wounded and remove them to the depots; for this purpose the conductors should always haver the necessary assistants, that the soldiers may have no excuse to leave the ranks for that object.

The medical director of the division, after consultation with the Quarter- master General, distributes the medical officers and hospital attendants at his disposal to the depots, and active ambulances. He will send officers and at. tendants when practicable, to the active ambulances, to relieve the wounded who require treatment before being removed from the ground. He will see that the depots and ambulances are provided with the necessary apparatus, medicines and stores. He will take post. and render his professional services, at the principal depot.

If the enemy endanger the depot, the Quartermaster takes the orders of the General to remove it, or to strengthen its guard.

The wounded in the depots and the sick are removed, as soon as possible, to the hospitals that have been established by the Quartermaster General of the army, on the flank or rear of the army.

After an action, the officers of ordnance collect the munitions of war left on the field. and make a return of them to the General. The Quartermaster's department collects the rest of the public property captured, and makes the returns to headquarters.

Written reports for the General commanding-in-chief are made by com- mandants of regiments, batteries, separate squadrons, and by all commanders of a higher grade, each in what concerns his own command, and to his im- mediate commander.

When an officer or soldier deserves mention for conduct in action, a special report shall be made in his case, and the General commanding-in-chief decides whether to mention him in his report to the Government and in his orders. But he shall not be mentioned in the report until he has been men- tioned in the orders to the army. These special reports are examined with

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care by the intermediate commanders, to verify the facts, and secure com- mendations and rewards to the meritorious only.

PRISONERS OF WAR.

Prisoners of war will be disarmed and sent to the rear, and reported as soon as practicable to headquarters. The return of prisoners from the Lead- quarters of the army to the War Department will specify the number, rank and corps.

SIEGES.

In the following regulations, the besieging force is supposed to be two divisions of infantry and a brigade of cavalry. The same principles govern in other cases.

The Brigadier Generals of infantry serve, in turn, as Generals of the trenches; one or more of them are detailed daily, according to the front and num- ber of attacks; they superintend the operations, and dispose the guards of the trenches to repulse sorties and protect the works. Officers of the general staff are assigned to them to transmit their orders and attend to the details of service.

The commandants of engineers and artillery accompany the first troops be- fore the works, to examine the works and approaches. When the engineers have completed the reconnoissance of the works, and of each front as far as practicable, the commandant of engineers makes a plan of the works, as exact and detailed as possible, and, under the instructions of the General commanding the siege, draws up the general plan of the siege, and discusses it with the commandant of artillery in regard to the best employment of that arm. These officers then submit their joint or separate opinions to the General, who decides on the plan of the siege, and gives the orders for the execution. The command- ant of engineers directs the construction of all the works of the siege, under the authority of the General, and lays before him every day a report of his operations, and a plan showing the progress of the attack. The commandant of artillery also makes daily reports to the General, of all that relates to his branch of the service.

The field officer of the trenches sees that men and litters are always ready, to bring off the wounded. One or more companies of the guards of the trenches are put under his immediate orders for the preservation of order and police in the trenches.

The divisions, brigades, regiments and battalions are encamped, during the siege, in the order of battle.

Materials for the siege, such as fascines, gabions, hurdles, pickets, etc., are furnished by the different corps, in the proportion ordered by the General.

Guards and workmen going to the trenches march without beat of drum or music.

The guards always enter the trenches with arms trailed, and the workmen also, unless they carry materials or tools, when the arms are in the sling.

Sand bags, forming loop-holes, are placed at intervals in the parapet, to cover the sentinels; they are more numerous than the sentinels, so that the enemy may not know where the sentinels are placed.

When detachments are placed at night in advance of the trenches, to cover the workmen, the men sit or lie down, with their firearms in their hands, to hide themselves better from the enemy; the sentinels put their ears to the ground frequently, that they may hear troops coming out of the place. To prevent mistakes, the workmen are told what troops cover them.

No honors are paid in the trenches. When the General commanding the siege visits them, the guards place themselves in rear of the banquette, and rest on their arms. The colors are never carried to the trenches, unless the

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whole regiment marches to repulse a sortie or make an assault. Even in this case, they are not displayed until the General commanding the siege gives a formal order. .

In the case of a sortie, the guards move rapidly to the places that have been designated by the General of the trenches, and which afford the best defense for the head of the works, the batteries, the communications or the flanks, or best enable them to take the sortie itself in flank or reverse. Hav- ing lined the banquette to fire on the enemy, the troops form on the reverse of the trench to receive him. The workmen take arms, retain their positions, or retire with their tools, as ordered. The officers commanding the detach- ments of workmen see that their movements are made promptly and in good order, so as to avoid all confusion in the communications.

The troops that advance beyond the trenches, to repulse the sortie, must not follow in pursuit. The General takes care that they return to the trenches before the retreat of the sortie allows the artillery of the place to open on them. When the workmen return, the officers and non-commissioned officers of the detachments call the roll without interrupting the work, which is im . mediately resumed.

The general officers of cavalry are more particularly employed in the serv- ice of posts, and detachments placed in observation to protect the siege. They and the field officers of this arm are employed in the command of escorts to convoys, of whatever arms the escorts may be composed. When these duties are not sufficient to employ them, they take their share of the duties of the trenches.

In war, every commander of a fortified place should always hold himself prepared with his plan of defense, as if at any time liable to attack. He ar- ranges his plan according to the probable mode of attack; determines the posts of the troops in the several parts of the works, the reliefs, the reserves and the details of service in all the corps. He draws up instructions for a case of attack, and exercises the garrison according to his plan of defense. In sea-coast works, he provides the instructions for the different batteries on the approach of ships.

On the approach of an enemy, he removes all houses and other objects. within or without the place, that cover the approaches, or interrupt the fire of the guns or the movements of the troops. He assures himself personally that all posterns, outlets, embrasures, etc., are in proper state of security.

He consults his next in rank, and the senior officer of the engineers and of the artillery, either separately or as a council of defense. In the latter case, he designates an officer to act as Secretary to the council, and to record their proceedings, and their joint or separate opinions, which are to be kept secret during the siege. The members may record their opinions under their own signature. In all cases, the commander decides on his own responsibility.

The commander shall defend in succession the advanced works, the covered ways and outworks, the body of the work and the interior intrench- ments. He will not be content with clearing away the foot of the breaches, and defending them by abattis, mines, and all the means used in sieges; but he shall begin in good time, behind the bastions or front of attack, the neces- sary intrenchments, to resist assaults on the main work.

When the commander thinks that the end of the defense has come, he shall still consult the council of defense on the means that may remain to pro- long the siege. But in all cases he alone will decide on the time, manner and terms of the surrender. In the capitulation, he shall not seek or accept better terms for himself than for the garrison, but shall share their fate, and exert his best endeavors for the care of the troops, and especially of the sick and wounded.

PART V.

TOWNSHIP HISTORIES.

TOWNSHIP HISTORIES,

CHAPTER I.

THE TOWN OF MARYSVILLE-PARIS TOWNSHIP.

THE original plat of Marysville was laid out in 1819, and the following de- scription thereof is from the records of Delaware County, which then included the site :

" Plat of the town of Marysville, which is situated on Mill Creek, a branch of the West Fork of the Scioto River, in Delaware County, Ohio, which was surveyed and laid out, agreeable to the above plat, for Samuel Culbertson,* Esq., proprietor of said town, as laid out to the cardinal points of the compass. The streets and alleys all at right angles ; the lots are five perches in front, or north and south, and eight perches back, or east and west ; the lots contain one-fourth part of an acre each, except the fractional lots which join the public square are less ; the streets are all four perches wide except the two streets running north and south, one of which being on the east side of the public square and the other on the west side, are thirty-three feet wide each ; the alleys are all sixteen and one- half feet wide each, all of which is fully delineated on the above plat.

" August 10, A. D. 1819.

CHARLES ROBERTS, Surveyor."

The lots in this plat were numbered from one to ninety-six ; the public square was in the shape of a diamond. The land included in this plat is a part of Ed- ward Dowse's Survey No. 3351, surveyed for him in 1798, by Nathaniel Massie, D. S., on certain military warrants held by Dowse. Stephens Thomson Mason, of Loudoun County, Va., purchased the warrants and received a patent from the United States Government May 7, 1800, for the whole survey, 1087 acres, "situate, lying and being between the Little Miami and Scioto Rivers, northwest of the River Ohio." March 21, 1801, Mason sold it to Joseph Scott, of Philadelphia, for five shillings, and the latter, on the 22d of September in the same year, disposed of it to Francis Bailey, of Lancaster County, Penn., for the sum of $187. Bailey, who owned a printing establishment in Philadelphia, on the 15th of March, 1813, conveyed the land to Margaret Bailey, "a single woman," for $1. July 10, 1817, Miss Bailey sold the west one-third part of her purchase to Samuel W. Culbertson, also for $1. By this Mr. Culbertson became the owner of what a subsequent survey proved to be 450 acres of land. It is thus described in the deed to him : "Beginning on the bank of Mill Creek, in Delaware County, Ohio, above where the present road passes from Delaware to Urbana, at two sugar trees and lyn, the northwest corner Edward Dowse's Survey No. 3351; thence seventy and one-half east 152 poles to a hickory, sugar tree and ash in the line of said Dowse's survey, at one-third of the whole distance-456 poles ; thence south ten east 436 poles to a post in the south boundary of said Dowse's survey, crossing the creek at 180 poles; thence south eighty west 152 poles with said south boundary to a large white oak and three sugar trees southwest corner to said Dowse's survey ; thence north ten west 436 poles along the west boundary of said Dowse's survey, crossing the creek to the beginning."

*This gentleman's name was Samuel W. Culbertson.

HISTORY OF UNION COUNTY.

Culbertson lived at Zanesville, Ohio. June 28, 1820, his wife, Mais* Culbert- son, granted him a power of attorney to convey for her the interest she owned in any lands in Union County which he wished to sell. July 25, 1822, the following power of attorney was granted by Culbertson and wife to Silas G. Strong, of Marysville :

" Know all men by these presents, That we, Samuel W. Culbertson, and Nancy, his wife, for divers good causes and considerations us thereunto moving, and the sum of one dollar to us in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, do and by these presents have nominated, constituted and appointed Silas G. Strong, of Marysville, our true and lawful attorney in fact, for us and in our names, to sell any and every inlot in Marysville, as laid out by Samuel W. Culbertson, be- ginning with lot number one and taking every odd lot progressively as high as lot number ninety-six, the even lots having been already disposed of; and lots num- bers one, three, forty-five, fifty-one, he is to be restricted to the prices as marked on the plat this day furnished him, subscribed by S. W. Culbertson ; the lots to be sold for one-fourth in hand and the residue within three years from the date, with interest from the sale ; when the sale is made, our attorney to give to the purchaser a title bond in our names, to bind us to make a complete legal title to the purchaser on the payment of the whole purchase-money to him or us ; he is also to make and give leases for small outlots for improvements. until outlots are laid out for sale, at which time the leases are to be void on the leusce being paid for his improvement. All our attorney's acts done by him agreeable to this power are to be done by him in our names, which he is to subscribe until this power is revoked by us ; and we do hereby obligate ourselves to ratify and confirm what- ever our said attorney may do by virtue of this our authority, as witness our hands and seals at Marysville this 25th day of July, 1822.

" SAMUEL W. CULBERTSON. [SEAL.]

" NANCY CULBERTSON. [SEAL.]

" Witnesses present : " DAVID COMER.

" NEIL GUNN."

Mr. Strong received like documents from other non-resident property holders, to sell or lease land for them, and was a man of extensive business for those days.

Marysville having been fixed upon as the seat of justice for the county of Union, David Comer was, on the 10th of July, 1820, appointed Director of said town. with Thomas MeDonald and George Harris as his bondsmen. On the day following it was " Ordered by the Court, That David Comer, the Director of the town of Marysville. be governed in his proceedings by the following rules, to-wit : That he select the grounds and lots ; that he receive deeds for the county ; that he sell the lots at public sale, giving first thirty days' notice in the neighboring papers ; that he sell for one-tenth in hand and the balance in four equal annual payments ; that he lay out the land in lots (either in or out lots as the ground may best suit); that he make any alterations in laying out the town which Cul- bertson and himself may think expedient; that he take bond, with security, from purchasers. After the public sale he may sell at private sale, and clear off the ground before the sales and make such other improvements as may be advantage- ous to the county."

April 18, 1821, a plat of Marysville was placed on record in Union County, having a total of 144 lots ; this was laid out by Mr. Comer, as Director, the lots from 98 to 144, inclusive, having been donated by Mr. Culbertson for the use of the county. The space between Center and North streets, extending east the width of one lot beyond Water street, was called " Military Square," and has since been laid out into lots. It was 43 poles and 4 links cast and west, by 28 poles north and south, and contained 7 acres 47 poles and 9 links. Culbertson and his wife, upon the establishment of the seat of justice at Marysville, deeded to David Comer, in trust for the county, all the even-numbered lots in the original plat and

* The name appears as Mary but once; in all other places it is given as Nancy, which was probably the true name.

PARIS TOWNSHIP.

the 24 acres adjoining on the east, in which were the 48 additional lots and the Military Square. This deed, dated December 16, 1820, was made in order that the Commissioners might be enabled to erect public buildings at Marysville. The Military Square was laid out into lots June 29, 1825 ; eight outlots had been platted for Mr. Culbertson, west of the original town, by Silas G. Strong, surveyor, November 3, 1823.

In 1824, David Comer resigned as Director, and on the 27th of September. in that year, the court appointed Stephen McLain in his place, and he entered into bonds, with David Comer and Richard Gabriel as securities. Comer died in 1825, and his last will and testament was admitted to probate on the 27th of June, in that year. He had, before his resignation, sold for the county the following lots in Marysville :

No. 4, to George Harris, April 20, 1821, price, $81.

No. 28, to Matthias Collins, May 21, 1821, price. $75.0625.

No. 26, to Matthias Collins, June 29, 1821, price, $55.

No. 58, to Philip Jarboe, June 29, 1821, price. $96.

No. 70, to Thomas Collins, December 3, 1822, price, $5-4.

No. 38, to T. L. Woods and Stephen McLain, September 27, 1824, price, $1.

Stephen McLain, while acting in the capacity of Director, sold lots in the town as follows :

Nos. 8, 86, 99, 102, to Thomas Osborn, April 2, 1825, price, $15.125.

No. 20, to Matthias Collins, November 25, 1824, price, $1.

No. 16, to Daniel Miller, Noveniber 5, 1824, price, $60.0625.

Nos. 129, 136, 137, 144, to Levi Phelps, May 10, 1825, price, $10.

No. 76, to Leonard Kirkwood, July 16, 1825, price, $1.

Nos. 2, 7, 10, 15, in Military Square, to James P. Crawford, September 29, 1825, price, $100.

Nos. 12, 30, 42, 80, and 3, 6, 11, 14, on Military Square, to Silas G. Strong, September 29, 1825, price, $100.

No. 94, to Pierce Lanphere, May 1, 1826, price, $10.

No. 82, to Leonard Kirkwood, May 29, 1826. price. $5.

Nos. 113, 120, 121, 128, 103, 106, 62, 116, 117, 124, 125, 60, 72. to David Witter, February 18, 1826, price, $100.

No. 84, to John N. Conkelon, June 30, 1826, price, $10.

No. 72, to Daniel Miller, November 17, 1826, price, $1.

Nos. 114, 119, 122, 127, to Daniel Miller, January 2, 1827, price, $25.

No. 78, to Adam Wolford, November 17, 1826, price, $10.

No. 90, to Adam Wolford, March 21, 1827, price, $10.

No. 44, to Hezekiahı Bates, May 19, 1827, price, $1.

Nos. 32, 14, 10, 129, 136, 137, 144, to Levi Phelps, July 26, 1827, price, $100.

Nos. 34, 97, 98, to John R. MeLain, December 17, 1827, price, $37.75.

No. 22, to Silas G. Strong. June 4, 1828, price, $69.

No. 143, to Sampson Hubbell, June 20, 1829, price, $4.

Nos. 100, 101, 108, 109, to William Gregg, June 22, 1829, price, $6.

Nos. 18, 66, 92, 115, 118, 123, 126, 131, 134, 139, 142, to Thomas Collins, Octo- ber 19, 1829, price, $31.

No. 54, to William Edgar, September 15, 1829, price, $20.

No. 110, to Robert Miller, June 22, 1829, price, 83.

No. 64, to John R. McLain, February 24, 1830, price, $35.

Nos. 56, 68, to Cyprian Lee, May 10. 1828, price, $6.

Nos. 4, 5, 12 and 13, on Military Square, to Matthias Collins, March 30, 1825, price, $7.

No. 2. to Levi Phelps, July 20, 1829, price, $2.

No. 48, to Alexander Pollock, October 26, 1830, price, $5.

Nos. 1, 8, 9 and 16, on Military Square, to Matthias Collins, January 28, 1831, price, $30.

HISTORY OF UNION COUNTY.

Nos. 135, 138, to William Wells, May 7, 1830, price, $8. No. 96, to George Sager, September 15, 1829, price, $10. No. 112, to Silas G. Strong, November 6, 1828, price, $8. No. 111, to Silas G. Strong, October 10, 1833, price, $10. No. 74, to William II. Spear, October 29, 1833, price, $5. No. 88, to John R. McLain, February 28, 1834. price, $6.

No. 6, to Ransom Clark. January 23, 1834, price, $6.

Nos. 132, 133, 140, 141, to Thomas Snodgrass. February 28, 1834, price, $8. No. 130, to Elisha Adamson, John R. McLain, Samuel B. Johnson, Directors of School District No 1, March 30, 1835, price, $5.

Mr. Culbertson sold the following, making deeds of a number of them after he had conveyed to his son-in-law, Joshua Mathiot, the entire 450 acres, except such lots as had been already sold or contracted for, the transfer occurring April 10, 1828 :

No. 33, to John Leeper, May 27, 1826, price, $1.

No. 45, to James Taylor, May 23, 1826, price, $150.

Outlot No. 2, to Silas G. Strong, May 27. 1826, price, $50.

Outlot No. 8, to Levi Phelps, July 15, 1828, price, $50. No. 39, to David Witter, November 8, 1828, price, $50.

Outlot No. 1, to Stephen McLain, November 26, 1829, price, $50.

Outlot No. 4, to Adam Wolford, February 4, 1830, price, $50.

July 2, 1828, Mathiot granted Silas G. Strong power of attorney * to sell for him any lots owned by said Mathiot in Marysville, or to lease or rent any farm lands on the balance of the 450 acres. He stipulated that Lots 1, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 17, 19, 25, 27, 61 and 83 should be sold for not less than $20 each ; Lots 3, 23, 49, 65, 67, 71, 79, 81, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93 and 95, at not less than $25 each ; Lots 53, 55, 59, 73 and 75, no less than $40 each ; Lots 21 and 69, no less than $70 each ; Lot 47, no less than $100; Lot 51, no less than $125; outlots at not less than $50 each. Mathiot and his wife, who at the time resided in Licking County, Ohio, sold lots as follows, per Strong :

Nos. 3, 11, to Levi Phelps, January 2, 1830, price, $25. Nos. 53, 55, to William Campbell, January 12, 1832, price, $80.

No. 27, to Samuel B. Johnson. January 12, 1832, price, $100.

Part of No. 51, to Silas G. Strong, September 29, 1832, price, $63. Part of No. 51, to Cyprian Lee, June 17, 1833, price, $87. Outlot No. 3, to James January, January 12, 1832, price, $50. No. 47, to Enos Ward, January 12, 1832, price, $100. Undivided one-half No. 45, to Luther M. Davis, March 1, 1834, price, $140.

Nos 29, 41, to Hezekiah Bates, March 21. 1834, price, $100.

Outlots Nos. 5, 6, to William Ward, March 26, 1834, price, $100.

No. 57, to Harvey Ward, March 14, 1835, price, $150. Nos. 69. 77, to Cyprian Lee, March 23, 1837, price, $100. No. 91, to Adam Wolford, March 23, 1837, price, $40. No. 75, to Ira Wood, March 23, 1837, price, $65.

No. 15, to Christian Gaul, March 14, 1835. price, $125.

No. 63, to Calvin Winget, March 23, 1837. price, $100. No. 81, to Levi Antrim, March 23, 1837, price. $48.

Nos. 73, 85, to Alexander Pollock. December 29. 1838, price, $150. Nos. 83, 95, to William Snodgrass, December 29, 1838, price, $100. No. 59, to Silas G. Strong, March 23, 1837, price, $72. Nos. 5, 17, to Ransom Clark, December 29, 1838, price, $62.50. No. 69, to Robson L. Broome, December 14, 1833, price, $100.

No. 37, to Mains Wason, January 7, 1841, price, $37.50.

No. 71, to James II. Gill, January 11, 1841, price, $60. No. 49, to Henry Kezartee. July 26, 1843, price, $60.

* This power of attorney was revoked April 8, 1830, but renewed the same day.

PARIS TOWNSHIP.

No. 61, to Robson L. Broome, July 26, 1843, price, $36.

No. 79, to Robson L. Broome, July 26, 1843, price, $60.

No. 87, to William H. Frank, April, 6, 1848, $75.

No. 93, to William L. Gibson, April 6, 1848, price, $40.

Outlot No. 7, to William H. Skinner,* April 15, 1851, price, $124.

April 12, 1851, Joshua Mathiot's widow sold to John Cassil her dower estate in Survey 3,351, described in a deed bearing that date. The administrators sub- sequently sold a number of lots in Mathiot's addition. In March, 1849, the Com- missioners ordered a re-numbering of the lots in Marysville, in compliance with an act of the Legislature passed February 2, 1848, and the Auditor and Recorder performed the work, making a few changes from the original numbering. The following additions have been made to the town, aside from those already men- tioned :

Western Addition-By Henry Shedd, ten lots, surveyed by William B. Irwin, July 6, 1847.

Mathiot's Addition-April 16, 1851, lots added from 172 to 221, inclusive, and several outlots, principally south of original town, but extending a little to the east thereof.

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The History of Union County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, towns military record;, Part 71

Author: Durant, Pliny A. [from old catalog]; Beers, W. H., & co., Chicago, pub. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Chicago, W. H. Beers & co. Number of Pages: 1254

Author: Durant, Pliny A. [from old catalog]; Beers, W. H., & co., Chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, W. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1254