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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 2. (search)
river, but his rudely-made vessel, either from the want of experience in its navigator, or because of its ill adaptation to withstand the force and caprices of the currents in the great river, capsized one day, and boat and cargo went to the bottom. The luckless boatman set to work however, and by dint of great patience and labor succeeded in recovering the tools and the bulk of the whiskey. Righting his boat, he continued down the river, landing at a point called Thompson's Ferry, in Perry county, on the Indiana side. Here he disposed of his vessel, and placing his goods in the care of a settler named Posey, he struck out through the interior in search of a location for his new home. Sixteen miles back from the river he found one that pleased his fancy, and he marked it off for himself. His next move in the order of business was a journey to Vincennes to purchase the tract at the Land Office--under the two-dollar-an-acre law, as Dennis Hanks puts it -and a return to the land to
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, July (search)
ill, authorizing the President to accept the services of five hundred thousand volunteers, was also passed.--The Senate's amendments to the Loan bill were all concurred in.--A joint resolution, conveying the thanks of Congress to Major-General George B. McClellan and the officers and soldiers under his command, for the recent brilliant victories over the rebels in Western Virginia, was unanimously adopted. Lieut. W. H. Free, of the Seventh Ohio Regiment, from a company enlisted in Perry County, Ohio, arrived at Columbus in that State with four Secessionists. Free, with twenty-five men, was conducting a transportation train from Ravenswood, Virginia, to Parkersburg. On Sunday last, he stopped at a farm-house to bait the horses. He immediately found that the women of the house sympathized with Secession. The farmer was absent. Thinking he might learn some facts of importance, he assured the women that he was an officer from Wise's brigade. At first they distrusted him, but at
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Elkins, Stephen Benton, 1841- (search)
Elkins, Stephen Benton, 1841- Legislator; born in Perry county, Ohio, Sept. 26, 1841; graduated at the Missouri University in 1860; admitted to the bar in 1863; captain in the 77th Missouri Regiment 1862-63; removed to New Mexico in 1864, where he engaged in mining; elected member of the Territorial legislature in 1864; became attorney-general of the Territory in 1868; United States district attorney in 1870; representative in Congress in 1873-77; Secretary of War in 1891-93; and elected United States Senator from West Virginia in 1895.
The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Heartrending accident. (search)
Heartrending accident. --The Paulding (Ala.) Clarion gives an account of a most heartrending accident which took place in Perry county. Three children, aged two, five and seven, in the absence of their mother, found a vial of strychnine, and pouring water into it, each one drank of its contents. When the mother returned she found one already dead, and the other two speechless. They all died within a few minutes of each other, and were buried in the same coffin.
The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. a disunion meeting in Alabama. Marion, Ala., Nov. 17. A meeting was held in Marion to-day by the citizens of Perry county, for the purpose of drafting resolutions which should go forth as the expression of their feelings in regard to Lincoln's election. The meeting was large, and a solemnity pervaded the audience which I never witnessed before. Every body was interested, and all parties belonging to the South were represented. The meeting wasouthern rights, or the secession of the sovereign States. The secession feeling was so prevalent that it is my serious opinion there were not six dissenting voices in an audience of fifteen hundred persons, and were such a thing possible, Perry county would secede whether Alabama did or not; but there seems to be little doubt as to the course Alabama will take in this matter before the 4th of March next.--She will be out of this Union without the least shadow of a doubt. The resolutions, p
The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
Clearing out a Nest of deserters. The deserters who form themselves into bands in Mississippi to rob the country do not seem to have a very quiet time of it. A letter in the Mobile Advertiser, from Gainesville, Mississippi, gives an account of Seals's band, in Jones and Perry counties. It says: "Seals soon came across two soldiers, Daniel McCall and John Knight, who had been captured at Port Hundson and paroled, and lately exchanged, and told them that they should join him or leave the country. They left, but soon returned and captured four of his men, two of whom they hung, and shot another. This encouraged the citizens, who soon organized and went in pursuit of the outlaws. In their first day's scouting they captured five,--two Smiths, one Leonard and one Holleman,--with stolen horses, cattle, bed-clothes and bedding in their possession. They were tried and sentenced to be shot. These men made confessions, implicating some forty-two others. The next day, they captu