... FORT MORROW SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812 FORT MORROW SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812 HONORED According to an early historian of Marion County Ohio Nathaniel Wyatt Sr exchanged 80 acres of military land in Pickaway County for a tract of 200 acres in Section 3 Waldo Township Marion County On this tract he built the Wyatt Brick Tavern and on it was also built Fort Morrow in the year 1812 Wyatt's Hotel was comprised in the enclosure of the pickets made from split slats around the old fort The old ...
... Miami to the supposed Miami later known as Federal Hall The selection of this spot for his home shows the taste of an old soldier Here long before Cincinnati had an existence this Piatt lived the strenuous life of a frontier settler He served his county for thirteen years as judge of the common pleas court The simple epitaph inscribed on his tombstone in the old cemetery near his home best ...
... Little Kanawha it is also possible that Ohio would be a French province today If General Lewis had not led his poorly-armed and clad Virginia mountaineers to the battle of Point Pleasant in the Ohio Valley and routed the Indians who were fighting under English directions it is also possible that there would not have been any reason for this Putnam society to exist The stolid Englishmen had made their homes along the lines of the Atlantic Coast ...
... 414 Ohio Arch 414 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of their devotion It remains for us to take up the full burden of citizenship and to consecrate our lives to the task of making our country worthy of the sacrifices that have been made by those who in countless numbers have given their lives for its establishment and its preservation With a great price have our privileges of citizenship been purchased Woe ...
... Miami river running into Miami The stream the postoffice at the mouth and the Reservoir Shelby County still bear his name - so the article continues There is no post-office within several miles of the mouth of the stream The post-office Loramie is about 15 miles from the mouth of the stream and is at the village of New Berlin in the northwest corner of Shelby County The position of Fort ...
... Miami towns on the upper Miami River where a small advance detachment had been sent I do not believe Washington Irving's exculpatory descriptive denunciation of the soldiers assembled there further than 446 Ohio Arch 446 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications that they were through no fault of theirs or of their officers untrained for campaigning or for war and that they were not well ...
... Miamis Sandusky or post Miami of the Lakes but providentially escaped to Detroit In 1827 Johnston then a prominent citizen of his native state printed a Narrative of the Incidents attending the Capture Detention and Ransom of Charles Johnston The following extracts relate to his fellow captive Peggy Fleming and to his experiences at Lower Sandusky When he reached Upper Sandusky he met a ...
... Miami paralleling highway Miami villages he found Miami towns in the hope of encountering some Indians who might have returned to the site of their homes In this hope the detachment was not disappointed it was in fact attacked by surprise and the militia fled disgracefully while the regulars stood their ground and 23 were killed Colonel ...
... Miami where he built and garrisoned Fort Hamilton Cutting a road through the wilderness the army arrived on this ground October 12th and proceeded to build another post as one of a chain of forts connecting Fort Washington with the Maumee at the present site of Fort Wayne Indiana On the 24th of October this post which was nearing completion was named Fort Jefferson by St Clair and a detachment with two pieces of artillery left to defend it ...
... FORT McARTHUR FORT McARTHUR The following address delivered by the late Dr A W Munson on Memorial day of 1895 at Shingle Grove near Ft McArthur burying ground was read at a recent D A R meeting in Kenton and will be especially interesting to our readers now as this year 1912 marks the centennial of the founding of the old fort Comrades and FriendsWe have met here on this pleasant afternoon of May 30 1895 in this beautiful grove beneath these grand forest trees around these graves to do honor ...
... Little Sandy for the people who still remained in Gallipolis The act annexed the condition of settling on the lands for three years before the deed of gift would be given M Gervais received four thousand acres of this land for his services in the matter according to previous agreement Each inhabitant had thus a tract of two hundred and seventeen and a half acres of land but before the surveys and other arrangements could be made some time was ...
... Miamie with the armed Miamie or the Miamie of the Lakes 30 Ohio Arch 30 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications was reserved for a death more terrible exceeding in fiendish ferocious devilish cruelty and barbarity anything recorded in savage annals98 Around the fire stood a crowd of Indians thirty or forty men and sixty or seventy squaws ...
... SOME DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF OHIO SOME DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF OHIO BY GEORGE DAVENPORT KRATZ AKRON In undertaking to edit the following expresses and communications I have made no attempt to form any connection between them or to draw any conclusions from the import of the letters taken separately The nature of the communications prohibits such a procedure My part has been merely to preface several of the documents with a few remarks relative to the state of affairs at the time they were ...
... Miami just above the present site of Dayton Here on the 25th of May 1812 the command of the troops was turned over to General Hull an officer who had won distinction during the Revolutionary War but who was now well advanced in years and physically unfit for so responsible a command as that to which he was now called The campaign upon which he entered was one of the most disastrous in all our history but he led a loyal and enthusiastic army ...
... Miami to the Ohio as Miami Shawnee and Wyandot Miami Valley of western Miamis near Fallen Timbers at the mouth of the Maumee River at the head of navigation of the St Marys River and at Ouiatenon Isle de Bois Blanc near Mackinac Island was acquired and use of the Chicago-Illinois river ...