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Civil War Soldiers - Piatt
| Piatt, Abram S., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2, 1821. He was educated
at the Athenaeum and at Kinmount academy in Cincinnati, and then
engaged in farming in the Macacheek valley. He began to study law in
1846, and in that year founded a paper, which he afterwards edited for
several years, called the "Macacheek Press." He enlisted in the
volunteer army in 1861, was commissioned colonel of the 13th Ohio
infantry on April 20, and in July raised and equipped at his own
expense the 1st Ohio Zouave regiment, which became the 34th Ohio
infantry, and of which he was commissioned colonel on Sept. 2. He then
began to organize another regiment, with the intention of forming a
brigade, but before it was completed he was ordered to the front, and
was made brigadier-general of volunteers, April 28, 1862. He commanded
the post at Winchester, Va., for a short time, and subsequently he
participated in the second battle of Bull Run and the battle of
Fredericksburg. He resigned from the army, Feb. 17, 1863, and resumed
farming, became a member of the National Greenback-Labor party and was
its candidate for governor in 1879. He was a member of the Patrons of
Husbandry, serving as its state lecturer for two years, and he
contributed poems to his own publication and to the Cincinnati
"Commercial."
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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