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38. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, June 17, 1845, September 24, 1850.

39. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, October 10, 1863; Sherman to Minnie Sherman,

March 15, 1863, January 28, 1864; Sherman to the Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C., March 1,

1867, May 5, 1870. Father Sorin was president of the University of Notre Dame.

40. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, June 6, 1862, April 30, 1878; Sherman to Minnie

Sherman, October 4, 1862; David P. Conyngham, "Soldiers of the Cross" (manuscript,

University of Notre Dame), Chap. IV; Ellen Sherman to Sherman, June 23, 1861. Indi-

cations, but no proof, exist that Ellen Sherman had the Rev. Joseph Carrier, C.S.C., sent

to Sherman's camp to check on reports that her husband was mentally disturbed.

41. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, September 16, 1846.

42. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, September 18, 1846.

43. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, January 6, March 24, 1872. An example of his detailed

church descriptions is in the letter of January 6.

44. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, May 26, July 24, 1872.

45. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, July 26, 1872. See also Sherman to Thomas Sherman,

March 1, 1872.

46. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, October 29, 1859, September 17, 1844.

47. Lloyd Lewis, Sherman, Fighting Prophet (New York, 1932), 628-631.

48. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, July 14, 1855.

49. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, June 14, 1844.

50. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, July 26, 1872. See also Sherman to Ellen Sherman,

July 7, 1872.

51. For examples of the children's intolerance, see Minnie Sherman to Ellen Sherman,

May 29, 1878, and Thomas Sherman to his brother Philemon Sherman, February 24, 1890.

52. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, August 25, 1872.

53. Ellen Sherman to Sherman, November 21, 1860. This is a copy of the original

letter, which was destroyed by Philemon Sherman.

54. Ellen Sherman to Sherman, April 29, 1855, December 1, 1859.

55. Sherman to Thomas Sherman, November 10, 1864; Sherman to Ellen Sherman,

November 29, 1860; Sherman to Thomas Sherman, March 29, 1872.

56. Sherman to Minnie Sherman, April 20, 1888, January 2, 1890.

57. Ellen Sherman to Sherman, January 29, 1861, August 1879, April 4, August 23,

1887.

58. Sherman to John T. Doyle, June 16, 1878.

59. Sherman to Major Henry Turner, June 28, June 5, July 24, 1878.

60. Ellen Sherman to Sherman, April 15, 1864.

61. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, January 15, 1865; Sherman to Thomas Sherman,

March 29, 1872.

62. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, September 16, 1883. See also Sherman to Mrs. Alex-

ander Thackara (Eleanor Sherman), May 24, 1881; Sherman to Minnie Sherman, June

16, 1878; and Sherman to John T. Doyle, July 28, 1878.

63. The quotation is from Sherman to Major Henry Turner, July 13, 1878. See also

Sherman to Major Turner, May 27, July 7, 1878.

64. Sherman to Major Henry Turner, May 27, 1878. See also Sherman to Minnie

Sherman, June 16, 1878, and Sherman to John T. Doyle, July 28, 1878.

65. Thomas Sherman's relationship with his father is reflected in Thomas Sherman

to Sherman, May 25, 1878, July 14, September 1, 1880. The gradual softening of Sher-

man's attitude is seen in Sherman to Ellen Sherman, August 24, 1880 (postscript written

by Rachel Sherman), and Sherman to Mrs. Alexander Thackara, December 30, 1880.

66. Ellen Sherman to Minnie Sherman. May 31, 1878.

67. Letter of John Sherman, dated February 13, 1891, in New York Sun, February 19,

1891. See also John Sherman, Recollections of Forty Years, II, 1102-1103.

68. Sherman to Mrs. Alexander Thackara, May 24, 1881.

 

NOTES ON THE ANTE-BELLUM CATTLE INDUSTRY FROM

THE McNEILL FAMILY PAPERS

 

The author gratefully acknowledges the patient encouragement, guidance, and criticism

of Dr. William D. Barns in a seminar in American Agricultural History at West Virginia

University.

1. James Westfall Thompson, History of Livestock Raising in the United States,

1607-1860, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural History Series, No. 5

(November 1942); Charles Townsend Leavitt, "The Meat and Dairy Livestock Industry,

1819-1860" (unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago, 1931).

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2. Paul C. Henlein, "Cattle Driving from the Ohio Country, 1800-1850," Agricultural

History, XXVIII (1954), 83-95; Henlein, Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley, 1783-1860

(Lexington, 1959). See also Paul C. Henlein, ed., "Journal of F. and W. Renick on an

Exploring Tour to the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers in the Year 1819," Agricultural

History, XXX (1956), 174-186.

3. Robert Leslie Jones, "The Beef Cattle Industry in Ohio Prior to the Civil War,"

Ohio Historical Quarterly, LXIV (1955), 168-194; 287-319.

4. This collection was generously given to the West Virginia Collection of the West

Virginia University Library by John, William, and D. Brown McNeill. Grateful acknowl-

edgment is made to Ralph J. Bean, Jr., of Moorefield, West Virginia for his guidance in

the South Branch Valley. In the editing of these letters, the spelling and punctuation are

as similar to the originals as typographical printing will allow.

5. Kuykendall Genealogical Day Book, West Virginia Collection, West Virginia Uni-

versity Library, 104; Deed Book A, Office of the Clerk of the County Court of Hardy

County, Hardy County Court House, Moorefield, W. Va., 65, 350, 389; William Renick,

Memoirs, Correspondence and Reminiscences of William Renick (Circleville O., 1880),

1-2; Williams Bros., publishers, History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio (Cleveland,

1880), opp. p. 205.

6. American Pioneer (Cincinnati, O.), I (September 1842), 331; Kuykendall Genealogi-

cal Day Book, 4, 9; Simeon Miller Bright, "The McNeill Rangers: A Study in Con-

federate Guerrilla Warfare" (unpublished M.A. thesis, West Virginia University, 1950), 7.

7. Leavitt, "Meat and Dairy Livestock Industry," 2-3, 4-5, 8-9, 12, 15, 175, 177-178;

Thompson History of Livestock Raising in the United States 59-60.

8. F. A. Michaux "Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains . . . [1802]," in

Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed., Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 (Cleveland, 1904), III,

245; Fortesque Cuming, "Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country . . . [1807-1809],"

Thwaites, Early Western Travels, IV, 136; Jones, "The Beef Cattle Industry in Ohio,"

174; Henlein, Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley, 4-5.

9. Jones, "The Beef Cattle Industry in Ohio," 174; Thompson, History of Livestock

Raising in the United States, 94 states that several head of a herd of cattle being driven

to Baltimore in 1805 were sold at Moorefield, Va., but the documentation is inadequate.

10. Henlein, Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley, 2, 51; Jones, "The Beef Cattle Indus-

try in Ohio," 185, 190-191, especially p. 191 for a discussion of the economic advantages

of the system; William Renick, "On the Cattle Trade in the Scioto Valley," Third Annual

Report of the Board of the Board of Agriculture of the State of Ohio (Columbus, 1849),

162-163; Percy W. Bidwell and John I. Falconer, History of Agriculture in the Northern

United States, 1620-1860 (Washington, 1925), 178, 390; J. F. King, "The Coming and

Going of Ohio Droving," Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, XVII (1908), 252;

Alvin H. Sanders, Shorthorn Cattle (Chicago, 1918), 182-183; John A. Hopkins, "Eco-

nomic History of the Production of Beef Cattle in Iowa," in Benjamin F. Shambaugh, ed.,

Iowa Economic History Series (Iowa City, 1928), 14-15; N. J. Dunlap, "Cattle Feeding,"

Sixty-Second Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture (Springfield, 1908),

351.

11. American Pioneer, I (January 1842), 73, 78; American Pioneer, I (September

1842), 329, 331; American Pioneer, II (January 1843) 41; Marriage of Felix Rennick

[sic] and Hannah See, November 5, 1795, Record of Marriage Book, Office of the Clerk

of the County Court of Hardy County, 5; Kuykendall Genealogical Day Book, 40;

Williams Bros., History of Ross and Highland Counties, opp. p. 205, 273; Henry Holcomb

Bennett, ed., The County of Ross (Madison, Wis., 1902), 356, 357, 655.

12. American Pioneer, II (January 1843), 41.

13. Extract from the McNeill Family Bible, Kuykendall Genealogical Day Book, 4,

96, 97; Bright, "The McNeill Rangers," 7.

14. Renick, Memoirs, 12, 79, 80, 99-100; Henlein "Cattle Driving from the Ohio Coun-

try," 83; Henlein, Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley, 8-9, 103.

15. Henlein, ed., "Journal of F. and W. Renick," 174; Henlein, Cattle Kingdom in the

Ohio Valley, 8-9; Jones, "The Beef Cattle Industry in Ohio," 178-181, 187-189; Renick,

"On the Cattle Trade in the Scioto Valley," 163.

16. Supporter (Chillicothe, Ohio), January 13, 1819.

17. Scioto Gazette and Fredonian Chronicle (Chillicothe, Ohio), November 5, 1819.

18. Ibid., November 9, 1820.

19. Renick, Memoirs, 5; Felix Renick to Daniel McNeill, December 18, 1820; Dr. John

Coates to Daniel McNeill, February 16, 1823. McNeill Family Papers.

20. James Parsons, Jr., to Daniel McNeill, February 21, 1823. McNeill Family Papers.

21. Jethro Neville to Daniel McNeill, February 5, 1826. McNeill Family Papers.

22. Jones, "The Beef Cattle Industry in Ohio," 193.

23. Daniel McNeill Account Book, 1820-1823. McNeill Family Papers. Except for

the account on the seventy-eight head of cattle mentioned, this book is fragmentary and

contains only scattered entries for the purchase of fodder and other grain supplies.

24. See Leavitt, "The Meat and Dairy Livestock Industry," 90-93, for a discussion of

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the economic system of cattle feeding in the Scioto Valley.

25. Renick, Memoirs, 3-4, 32-35, 48; Henlein, Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley, 131;

Bennett, The County of Ross, 137; The Scioto Gazette, March 27, June 26, 1806; January

11, 1808.

26. This event was noted in the Scioto Gazette, February 24, 1820.

27. Bennett, The County of Ross, 359; Jonathan G. Harness to Daniel McNeill,

November 1, 1820. McNeill Family Papers.

28. Renick, Memoirs, 55.

29. Henlein, ed., "Journal of F. and W. Renick," 174, 176.

30. King, "The Coming and Going of Ohio Droving," 251.

31. George W. Renick.

32. Daniel McNeill to Daniel R. McNeill, April 11, 1827. McNeill Family Papers.

33. Catherine McNeill acted as her ailing father's amanuensis in this letter. Daniel

McNeill to Daniel R. McNeill, March 31, 1829. McNeill Family Papers.

34. Strawder McNeill was the son of Daniel McNeill's brother, John, who had

migrated to Ross County in 1809. In 1816 he established the town of Frankfort upon his

lands in Concord Township. Throughout his life, John McNeill was engaged in the

mercantile and livestock businesses. Will of Daniel McNeill, Sr., Will Book I, Office of

the Clerk of the County Court of Hardy County, 328; Bennett, The County of Ross, 599;

Williams Bros., History of Ross and Highland Counties, 314.

35. Catherine McNeill to Daniel R. McNeill, March 15, 1830. McNeill Family Papers.

36. Inventory of the Estate of Daniel McNeill, Will Book 6, Office of the Clerk of the

County Court of Hardy County, 71-74.

37. John Ashton, "History of Shorthorns in Missouri prior to the Civil War," Missouri

State Board of Agriculture Monthly Bulletin, XXI (November 1923), 14-29.

38. Henlein, Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley, 75-79; Sanders, Shorthorn Cattle,

185-186; Charles S. Plumb, "Felix Renick, Pioneer," Ohio Archaeological and Historical

Quarterly, XXIII (January 1924), 28-56; Edward N. Wentworth, A Biographical Catalog

of the Portrait Gallery of the Saddle and Sirloin Club (Chicago, 1920), 235-238.

39. For names of settlers from the South Branch who went to Missouri, see Ashton,

"History of Shorthorns in Missouri," 59-62.

 

 

THE WHISKEY WAR AT PADDY'S RUN:

EXCERPTS FROM A DIARY OF ALBERT SHAW

 

The editor, Lloyd J. Graybar, wishes to dedicate this article to the memory of his

mother, Maude V. Graybar.

1. Lloyd J. Graybar, "Albert Shaw's Ohio Youth," Ohio History, LXXIV (1965), 29-34,

tells of Shaw's upbringing in Ohio and his later rise to prominence. The diary is deposited

in the large collection of Shaw Manuscripts in the New York Public Library. His capi-

talization, spelling and punctuation appear here as in the original.

2. Ibid., 31. For history of the community see Stephen Riggs Williams, The Saga of the

Paddy's Run (Oxford, Ohio, 1945). W. H. Irwin, Esq., and Rev. S. D. Crothers, Cen-

tennial Historical Sketches of Greenfield and Vicinity, July 4, 1876 (Greenfield, Ohio,

1876), contains "An Historical Sketch of Paddy's Run, Butler County, Ohio," by Rev.

B. W. Chidlaw [n.p.].

3. J. H. Beadle, The Women's War on Whiskey: Its History, Theory, and Prospects

(Cincinnati, 1874), is a graphic account of the crusade written by an experienced reporter

for the Cincinnati Commercial. From January 23 until May 2, 1874 he visited a score

of Ohio towns to write on the campaign's progress and later published his stories in his

book. See also Cincinnati Commercial, January 6, 16, February 8, 10, April 10, 1874;

Cincinnati Daily Gazette, February 16, 1874; Cincinnati Enquirer, March 6, 1874; Mary

Earhart, Frances Willard: From Prayers to Politics (Chicago, 1944), 138, 141-145. The

Commercial, edited by Murat Halstead, native of Paddy's Run, gave extensive news

coverage to the crusade, often on the first page, under a standing headline: "Woman's

War on Whiskey" until March 30 when "Temperance" was substituted. Editorially it

was unenthusiastic. The Gazette made a lesser effort at coverage, calling it "The Woman's

Temperance Crusade" or "The Temperance Crusade." The disapproving Enquirer gave

considerable space to news under headings "Woman's War" or "The Crusade."

4. Cincinnati Daily Gazette, February 3, 1874; Beadle, Women's War, v, 11-14. Dr.

Lewis wrote the foreword to Beadle's book in March 1874.

5. A notable example was John C. Van Pelt, New Vienna saloonkeeper who first

threw beer on his female tormentors, then repented, dumped his stocks and joined Dr.

Lewis when he returned to Ohio in February on another lecture tour to advance the

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