History of Fayette County
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County
FAYETTE COUNTY IN THE REBELLION
The first gun discharged from the rebel batteries at the stars and stripes, floating over the ramparts of Fort Sumpter, resounded over the waters and through the valleys, reverberating from hill to hill, proclaimed to the patriots of tliis country the intelligence throughout the vast Union, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, that the old flag was insulted, the government in danger, and that the brave sons of Ohio were called upon to protect the old ship of state. Ohio as a whole responded nobly to the call for volunteers. Fayette County, as a part of that glorious whole, sprang to the rescue. The fires of patriotism were lighted in every loyal heart, not only of her brave sons, but her noble women, who, with Spartan heroism, urged them to the tented fields.
Dill's History of Fayette County
- Introduction
- Original Possessors
- Political and Military History
- Virginia
- Virginia Military Survey
- Early Settlement of the Ohio Valley
- Early Surveying
- Early Surveyors
- First Survey in Fayette County
- Numbering of Surveys
- First Settlement Upon the Virginia Reservation
- Capture of Andrew Ellison
- Life In The Woods
- Indian Wars
- Organization and Boundary
- The Pioneer
- Old Settlers
- Prominent Physicians
- Original Townships
- Current Townships
- Mills and Milling
- Taverns
- Race of John Edgington
- War of 1812
- Batteal Harrison At Fort Meigs
- Josiah Hunt
- Effects of the War of 1812
- The Old Muster
- Sharp-Shins or Cut Money
- Pioneer Girls
- Corn Huskings
- Game And Hunters
- The Old School House
- Early Mails
- Pigeon Roosts
- The Judiciary
- Jails
- County Infirmary
- Counterfeiting
- The Funk Fight
- The First Man Sent To The Penitentiary
- Execution of William G. W. Smith
- Sanitary
- Drainage
- Stock Sales
- The First Railroad
- Fayette County In The Rebellion
- Fifty-Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
- Ninetieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
- One Hundred and Fourteenth O.V.I.
- Twentieth Regiment O.V.I.
- Twenty-Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry