John Beatty (Ohio politician)

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox officeholder Template:Commons category John Beatty (December 16, 1828Template:SpndDecember 21, 1914) was an American banker and statesman from Sandusky, Ohio. He served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Biography

Beatty was born near Sandusky, Ohio. He entered the banking business in Morrow County.<ref name=Beatty>Beatty, John, The Citizen Soldier, Time-Life Books reprint of 1879 edition. Reprinted in 2007 by Gardners Books. Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN</ref> Presidential elector for Lincoln/Hamlin in 1860<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and in 1884.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Civil War

When the Civil War started, Beatty volunteered as a private in the 3rd Ohio Infantry, serving in western Virginia. By 1863, he was commissioned as a brigadier general following his distinguished service in the Battle of Perryville, the Battle of Stones River, and the Tullahoma Campaign. He took command of a brigade of infantry and led it through the rest of the war. Beatty participated in the Tullahoma Campaign, the Battle of Chickamauga, and the successful Union attack on Missionary Ridge during the Chattanooga Campaign.<ref name="Beatty"/> He resigned his commission in January 1864 and re-entered the banking business.

Congress

Following the war, he represented Ohio in the U.S. Congress from 1868 to 1873.

Later career

He served as a presidential elector in 1884 for the Blaine/Logan ticket.<ref>Taylor 1899 : vol. 2, 106</ref>

A 1909 biographer wrote that Beatty was then "the sole survivor of the electoral college of Ohio, which cast its vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and as far as known, the only surviving elector who cast a vote for President Lincoln when he was chosen to his first term almost a half century ago."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Beatty was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Sandusky.

Autobiography

Beatty wrote The citizen-soldier, or, Memoirs of a volunteer, Cincinnati : Wilstach, Baldwin, 1879. The book has been reprinted more than once.<ref name="Beatty"/>

See also

• List of American Civil War generals (Union)

Notes

Attribution

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References

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External links

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