... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1958 -- July 1959 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE HENLEIN Paul C Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley 1783-1860 Lexington University of Kentucky Press 1959 198p ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT KUHNS Frederick Irving The American Home Missionary Society in Relation to the Antislavery Controversy in the Old Northwest Billings Montana published by the author 1959 53p ARCHAEOLOGY ALLMAN John C An Interesting ...
... A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance The Journal of Joseph Gardner Andrews For the Year 1795--III Edited by R I CHARD C KNOPF This is the third and last installment of the Andrews journal The ague which Andrews noted on August 21 had commenced among the soldiery of the Garrison now in September attacks in force By October 1 two-thirds of the ninety-four persons on the post including Andrews are affected with it Then it withdraws though on October 29 twenty-three ...
... OHIO GENERALS AND FIELD OFFICERS IN THE OHIO GENERALS AND FIELD OFFICERS IN THE CIVIL WAR BY COLONEL W L CURRY In every crisis through which our Nation has passed since the firing of that shot at Concord April 19 1775 that was heard around the world there seem to have been men born to meet every emergency statesmen and men of military genius called from the walks of civil life to carry the ship of State safely through both in peace and war Therefore when the first gun of the War of the ...
... Three Civil War Letters of James A Garfield edited by JAMES D NORRIS and JAMES K MARTIN I know of no man in the army whose death would crush me so terribly as his Brigadier General James A Garfield wrote to his wife on May 12 1862 concerning Major Frederick Augustus Williams He is a true man and one of my dearest friends1 The young major had contracted typhoid fever during the later stages of the Sandy Valley campaign in the eastern Kentucky mountains On March 19 Garfield who commanded the ...
... Civil War Letters of George M Civil War Letters of George M Wise Edited by WILFRED W BLACK George M Wise was born at Bellaire Ohio on September 5 1841 After attending Old Washington Academy four years he entered Jefferson College later Washington and Jefferson College prior to his enlistment There he was enrolled in the classical course of instruction After the war he was an accountant An expert in mathematics as well as geometry algebra and trigonometry he added by tens rather than units and ...
... edited by edited by HELEN WINGATE AND DONALD SMYTHE SJ A Buckeye in the Great War The Wartime Diary and Letters of John J Miller EDITORS' NOTE John J Miller was born March 5 1889 in Chatham Ohio the son of Philo L and Mary Elizabeth Miller He attended public schools in Chatham until his family moved to Elyria Ohio in his senior year Graduating from Elyria High School he attended Western Reserve University and Western Reserve University Dental School graduating from there in 1915 Returning to ...
... Historical News Historical News THE ELEUTHERIAN MILLS-HAGLEY FOUNDATION in c ooperation with the University of Delaware is again offering two fellowships in American history and museum training The fellowships carry an annual stipend of 1800 renewable for the second year and lead to a master's degree The fourteenth annual spring exhibition at the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio The Turn of the Century Cincinnati from 1890 to 1910 will be held from April 22 through June 26 Leslie H ...
... 44 Ohio Arch 44 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications SOME INTERESTING PARTICULARS BY THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL REPORTER In a communication of considerable length entitled The Holmes County Rebellion--Interesting Particulars a correspondent of the Ohio State Journal reported to that paper a news story which it published under the date of June 22 1863 It contains the names of a number of participants in the uprising and reads in part as follows CAMP NEAR WOLF CREEK WALLACE EXPEDITION June 18 ...
... Peter Cartwright's CIRCUIT RIDING Days in Ohio by CHARLES TOWNSEND A famous historian referring to the people on the American frontier once wrote Whether Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Baptist or Methodist these people saturated their religion and their politics with feeling Both the stump and the pulpit were centers of energy electric cells capable of starting widespreading fires They felt their religion and their democracy and were ready to fight for it1 Peter Cartwright one of the most ...
... NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTURE OF ABEL JANNEY NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTURE OF ABEL JANNEY BY THE INDIANS IN 17821 FROM THE DIARY OF ABEL JANNEY On the 12th day of March 1782 about break of day as I and my two companions were lying in our blankets about half a mile from the Ohio river on the Indian's side near the mouth of the Great Kenhaway2 river We were surprised by a shout of Indians who came rushing upon us When I heard the noise I spoke to my two companions and said rise up here are Indians when ...
... 526 Ohio Arch 526 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and accoutrements Wayne could not safely go directly down and thereupon he dug an oblique shelf-road in the breast of the declivity downward -- eastward a distance of about one hundred feet and thereby the army descended to the floor of the valley and crossed the stream The shelf-road is not the pitch It is the expedient made in breast of the pitch or declivity It is a very interesting well-preserved remnant of Wayne's Preble Trail It ...
... BOWMAN'S CAMPAIGN OF 1779 BOWMAN'S CAMPAIGN OF 1779 Copied and published by permission of the Wisconsin Historical Society from the Draper MSS Bedinger Papers A-Vol I pp 19-31 inclu-EDITOR Started about 1st of June-and continued about 4 weeksvide page - for bear killing Holder commanded a company-not over 20 or 25 belonged to Boonesboro-the remainder in neighboring Stations if any then settled marched to Lexington thence on to the mouth of Licking When near the mouth here one of the party ...
... MORGAN'S RAID MORGAN'S RAID L J WEBER In the QUARTERLY for January 1908 page 48 was published an article on Morgan's Raid We herewith present another account of this historic event practically the only feature of the Civil War which occurred within the bounds of the State of Ohio Every recital in detail or in part of Morgan's Raid if at all worthy of credence deserves permanent preservation Hence the publication of this second article Mr L J Weber the author is a well-known attorney now ...
... WAYNE'S STRATEGIC ADVANCE FROM FORT WAYNE'S STRATEGIC ADVANCE FROM FORT GREENVILLE TO GRAND GLAIZE BY O W PRIDDY The government of the United States went into effect in 1789 and General George Washington was its first president While the new republic was busily engaged in adjusting its domestic affairs an Indian confederation was formed in the region of the Miami of the lakes Maumee River that seriously challenged the sovereign power of the national government in the Northwest Territory In a ...
... DANIEL BOON DANIEL BOON WILLIAM A GALLOWAY B S M D XENIA OHIO In Prof McFarland's excellent article on Simon Kenton he mentions Daniel Boon as having been the most prominent early settler of Kentucky He also quotes from Boon's own account giving the date of his first journey from his home on the Yadkin River North Carolina in quest of the country of Kentucky and the names of his associates on this memorable trip Some of Col Boon's most strenuous experiences occurred in Ohio and on this account ...
... SINCLAIRE'S DEFEAT SINCLAIRE'S DEFEAT This specimen of early times poetry appeared shortly after St Clair's defeat 1791 and was printed in circular form it is related and was posted up in many a pioneer cabin It reveals the sentiment of the times as well as the Form of expression 'Twas November the fourth in the year ninety-one We had a sore engagement near to Fort Jefferson Sainclaire was our commander which may remembered be For there we left nine hundred men in the West'n Ter'tory At ...
... A VISIT IN 1929 A VISIT IN 1929 TO THE SITES IN WESTERN OHIO OF FORTS BUILT BY GENERALS ARTHUR ST CLAIR ANTHONY WAYNE AND WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON BY JAMES A GREEN CHAPTER I On the Fourth of July 1929 I made a patriotic pilgrimage visiting the sites of some of the forts erected in western Ohio in St Clair's and Wayne's Indian Campaigns and by Harrison in the War of 1812 As showing the immeasurable difference between the slow and laborious progress of our early armies and the speed of the modern ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 493 FORT LAURENS--ITS SITE AND SIEGE The relation of the Ohio country and its pre-state pioneers to the events of the American Revolution has not yet been properly portrayed Until recently leading historians have either ignored it altogether or slightingly treated it It will ere long receive due attention Roosevelt in The Winning of the West Winsor in the Westward Movement and Moore in The Northwest Under Three Flags have given it more or less consideraton During the ...
... 420 Ohio Arch 420 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications between Fort St Clair and Fort Jefferson the following is an authentic account of that affair Lieut Lowrie of the second and Ensign Boyd of the first and second sub legions with a command consisting of about ninety noncommissioned officers and privates having under their convoy twenty wagons loaded with grain and commissaries' stores were attacked between daylight and sunrise seven miles advanced of Fort St Clair on the morning of the ...
... FORT ST FORT ST CLAIR CELEBRATION OF ST CLAIR DAY No history of the Northwest Territory would be complete without conspicuous reference to what is now Preble County Ohio Through its primeval forests General Arthur St Clair in the autumn of 1791 marched on his ill-fated expedition to disastrous defeat by the Indians near the present site of Fort Recovery to return later in disorderly retreat Over the same route General Anthony Wayne advanced with his legions by careful stages in October 1793 to ...