Location of Lebanon, Ohio

John Durbin Ward (born February 11, 1819) was an Ohio lawyer, politician, newspaper publisher, and American Civil War officer, who lived in Warren County in the southwestern part of that state. Adapted from Wikipedias OH county maps by Catbar. ... Adapted from Wikipedias OH county maps by Catbar. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1819 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... State nickname: The Buckeye State Other U.S. States Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus Governor Bob Taft Official languages None Area 116,096 km² (34th)  - Land 106,154 km²  - Water 10,044 km² (8. ... The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 northern states of the Union – and the newly-formed Confederate States of America, which consisted of 11 southern states that had declared their secession. ... Warren County is a county located in the state of Ohio. ...

Ward was born in Augusta, Kentucky. His mother, Rebecca Patterson, named him in honor of the Rev. John Price Durbin [1] (http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/d/ed_durbinJP.html) (1800-1876), a noted Methodist preacher, who was a school mate of hers. Around 1823, the family moved to Fayette County, Indiana, in the southeastern part of that state. Josiah Morrow, the historian of Warren County, wrote of Ward: Augusta is a city located in Bracken County, Kentucky. ... 1800 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... 1823 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Fayette County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... Warren County is a county located in the state of Ohio. ...

His early opportunities for education were limited, but such was his thirst for knowledge that he became an insatiable reader, and, when he was eighteen years old he had read every book he had ever seen. He has never lost his studious habits, and when at home he is most frequently found in his library . . . . [2] (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohwarren/Beers/V/tct/0787_ward_durbin.htm)

He attended for two years Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, just across the state line from Fayette County, then taught school in Warren County and settled there. He studied law under Judge George J. Smith (1799-1878) and Thomas Corwin, a Lebanon attorney who later was Governor of Ohio. After he was admitted to practice, he was Corwin's law partner. Miami University, founded in 1809, is the second oldest college west of the Allegheny mountains. ... Oxford is a city located in southwestern Ohio in northwestern Butler County in Oxford Township, originally called the College Township. ... Warren County is the name of several counties, named for General Joseph Warren, who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War: Warren County, Georgia Warren County, Illinois Warren County, Indiana Warren County, Iowa Warren County, Kentucky Warren County, Mississippi Warren County, Missouri Warren County... 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Thomas Corwin Thomas Corwin (also known as Tom Corwin and The Wagon Boy) (July 29, 1794 - December 18, 1865) was a member of the United States House of Representatives (elected as a Whig to the 22nd Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1831, until... Ohio Governors Ohio was admitted to the Union on March 1, 1803. ...

In 1845, Ward, a Whig, was elected Warren County's seventh Prosecuting Attorney, an office once held by Governor Corwin. He served from 1846 to 1850. From 1853 to 1854, he represented Warren County in the Fiftieth General Assembly, the first held under the new state constitution adopted in 1851. He served only one two-year term in the legislature. During that time, he sponsored legislation for the state to abandon the unprofitable Warren County Canal that connected Lebanon to the Miami and Erie Canal at Middletown. 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The United States Whig Party was a political party of the United States. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Ohio General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio. ... Events January 23 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. ... A sketch of a canalboat by Herbert Fall from circa1840, about the time the canal operated. ... The Miami and Erie Canal was a canal that connected the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio with Lake Erie in Toledo, Ohio. ... Middletown is a city located in Butler and Warren counties in southwestern Ohio in Lemon, Turtlecreek, and Franklin townships. ...

Upon his retirement from the legislature, he opened a law office in Cincinnati, Ohio, but continued to live at Lebanon. Ward switched to the Democratic Party about this time and was its nominee for Congress in 1856 and Attorney General in 1858. (He lost the latter to Republican C. P. Walcott.) In 1860, he supported Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas for President. Cincinnati, The Queen City (also The Queen of the West, The Blue Chip City, The City of Seven Hills, and also referred to as Cincy) is a city in Southwestern Ohio, United States. ... The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The office of Attorney General of Ohio was first created by the Ohio General Assembly by statute in 1846. ... 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... State nickname: Land of Lincoln, The Prairie State Other U.S. States Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Governor Rod Blagojevich Official languages English Area 149,998 km² (25th)  - Land 143,968 km²  - Water 6,030 km² (4. ... Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861), American politician from Illinois, was one of the Democratic Party nominees for President in 1860 (the other being John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky). ...

When President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight in the Civil War, Ward was the first in his congressional district to enlist. He entered the army as a private, declining a commission. He rose to be a major in the 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and saw action at Mill Springs, Corinth, Stone River, Hoover's Gap, and Chickamauga. At Chickamauga, his left arm was wounded and permanently crippled. In November 1865, he was brevetted a brigadier general for his "fallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Chickamauga." Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th (1861–1865) President of the United States, and the first president from the Republican Party. ... The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 northern states of the Union – and the newly-formed Confederate States of America, which consisted of 11 southern states that had declared their secession. ... Battle of Mill Springs Conflict American Civil War Date January 19, 1862 Place Pulaski County and Wayne County, Kentucky Result Union victory The Battle of Mill Springs, also known as Logans Cross Roads was a decisive Union victory that made a Union invasion into Tennessee possible. ... The Battle of Corinth I (also known as the Siege of Corinth) was a United States Civil War battle fought from April 29, 1862 – June 10, 1862 in Corinth, Mississippi. ... Battle of Stones River / Battle of Murfreesboro II Conflict American Civil War Date December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863 Place Murfreesboro, Tennessee Result Both sides claim victory, but the Confederate Army withdraws The Battle of Stones River or Murfreesboro II, was a battle fought in the American Civil War. ... Battle of Hoovers Gap Conflict American Civil War Date June 24–26, 1862 Place Bedford County, Tennessee and Rutherford County, Tennessee Result Union victory The Battle of Hoovers Gap was the principal battle fought in the Tullahoma Campaign of the American Civil War. ... The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 18–20, 1863, marked the end of a Union offensive in south-central Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign. ... 1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ... In the military, brevet refers to a warrant authorizing a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (usually without receiving the pay of the higher rank). ...

After the war ended, President Andrew Johnson named him United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. In 1870, he was elected a senator in the General Assembly. Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the sixteenth Vice President (1865) and the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. ... United States Attorneys represent the U.S. federal government in United States district court. ... The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio is one of two United States district courts in Ohio and includes forty-eight of the states eighty-eight counties. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

At Lebanon, Ward founded The Lebanon Patriot, a Democratic paper first published on January 16, 1868. Warren County being ardently Republican, the paper was to take the place of the previous Democratic paper in the county, the Democratic Citizen, which was destroyed by a mob at the outbreak of the Civil War. Ward sold the paper to Edward Warwick in the 1870s. The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 northern states of the Union – and the newly-formed Confederate States of America, which consisted of 11 southern states that had declared their secession. ...

References

• Dallas R. Bogan. Warren County's Involvement in the Civil War. Franklin, Ohio: The Author, 1991.
• Josiah Morrow. The History of Warren County, Ohio. Chicago: W.H. Beers, 1883. (Reprinted several times)