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Milroy to evacuate the place and fall back on
Harper's Ferrj'. This order was countermanded
by General Halleck, and resulted in Milroy's
escape three days after, with a loss of 3,300 men.
He was a representative in the Ohio legislature,
1865-66; Washington correspondent of the Cin-
cinnati Commercial, 1868-71; established and
edited, with George Alfred Townsend, the
Capital at Washington, D.C., 1871-72, and was
its editor-in-chief, 1873-80. He was arrested in
1876, by order of President Grant, on the charge
of inciting the people through his paper to rebel-
lion, insurrection and riot. He retired to his
estate Mac-a-cheek, Ohio, in 1880, and devoted
himself to literary work. He edited BelforcVs
Magazine, New York, 1888-89. The University
of Notre Dame, Indiana, conferred upon him the
degree LL.D. in 1882. He is the author of
several plays, including Lost and Won; A Hunt
for an Heiress; Jane Shore, a King's Love;
Emotional hisanity, and of Keno, a comic opera;
Memoirs of the Men who Saved the Union
(1887), and The Rev. Melancthon Poundex, a
novel (1889). He was engaged with General
Henry M. Cist (q.v.) in preparing a life of
General George H. Thomas, at the time of his
death. See " Work and Ways of Donn Piatt," by
Charles Grant Miller (1893) . He died at his home
Mac-a-cheek, in central Ohio, Nov. 13, 1891.
PIATT, John James, poet, was born at James's Mills, now Milton, Ind., March 1, 1835; son of John Bear and Emily (Scott) Piatt; grandson of James and Rachel (Bear) Piatt, and of John and Catharine (Gray) Scott; great-grandson of Capt. AVilliam Piatt, of the Revolutionary army, and greats-grandson of John and Frances (Van Vleet) AVycoff Piatt of Six Mile Run, N.J. He learned the printer's trade in the office of the Ohio State Journal, published by his uncle, Charles Scott, and subsequently attended the high school. Capi- tal university at Columbus, and Kenyon college. He removed to Illinois with his parents in 1856, lived for some time on a farm, and wrote verses which were published in the Louisville Journal. In 1859 he became confidential secretary to George D. Prentice, editor of the Journal, and a member of its editorial staff. He was a clerk in the U.S. treasury department at Wash- ington, D.C., 1861-67; served on the staff of the Cincinnati, Ohio, Chronicle, 1868-69, and as literary editor and correspondent of the Cin- cinnati Commercial, 1869-78. He was assistant clerk of the U.S. house of representatives in 1870, and its librarian, 1871-75; U.S. consul at Cork, 1882-93, and at Dublin, April to September, 1893, when he returned to the United States, owing to a change in the administration, and devoted himself to literary work. He was married, June 18, 1861, to Sarah Morgan Bryan of
Kentucky. He contributed to the Atlantic
Monthly and other magazines, and is the author
of: Poems of Tico Friends (with William Dean
Howells, 1800); The Nests at Washington and
Other Poem,s (with Mrs. Piatt, 1864); Poems in
Sunshine and Firelight (1866); Western Windov-s
and Other Poems (1869); Landmarks and Other
Poems (1871); Poems of House and Home (1878);
Pencilled Fly Leaves: A Book of Essays in Town
and Country (1880); The Union of American
Poetry and Art (1880-81); Idylls and Lyrics of the
Ohio Valley (1881); The Children of Out-of -Doors:
A Book of Verses by Two in One House (with
Mrs. Piatt, 1884); At the Holy Well: a Handful of
Neiv Verses (1887);^ Return to Paradise (rev. ed.
of Pencilled Fly Leaves, London, 1890); Little
New World Idylls and Other Poems (1893); The
Ghost's Entry and Other Poems (1895); Odes in
Ohio and Other Poems (1897). He also edited
and published The Hesperian Tree, an Annual of
the Ohio Valley (1900 and 1903).
PIATT, 5arah Morgan (Bryan), poet, was born near Lexington, Ky., Aug. 11, 1836; daughter of Talbot Nelson and Mary Anne (Spiers) Bryan; grand-daughter of Morgan and Mildred (Simpson) Bryan, and of William and Mary (Simpson) Spiers. Morgan Bryan emigrated from North Carolina to Kentucky with Daniel Boone, whose wife was Rebecca Bi-yan, and set- tled at Bryan's Station, near Lexington. Sarah was graduated at Henry Female college, New- castle, Ky., in 1854, and began to write verses during her school days. She received encourage- ment from George D. Prentice (q.v.), who pub- lished her poems in the Louisville Journal, and they were extensively copied. Subsequently her contributions appeared in the New York Ledger, the Atlantic, Harx)er's and other periodicals in America and England. In addition to the works mentioned in connection with her husband, John James Piatt (q.v.), she is the author of: A Woman's Poems (1871); A Voyage to the Fortu- nate Isles and Other Poems (1874); That New World and Other Poems (1786); Poems in Com- pany u'ith Children (1877); Dramatic Persons and Moods (1880); An Irish Garland (1884); Selected Poems (1885); In Primrose Time (1886): Childs'- World Ballads (1887; new ser., 1895); The Witch in the Glass (1888); An Irish Wild- Floiver (1891); An Enchanted Castle (1893), and Complete Poems (3 vols., 1894).
PICARD, George Henry, author, was born in Berea, Ohio, Aug. 3, 1850; son of Jonathan Newman and Mary (Fairchild) Picard; grandson of Peter and Marie (Spaulsbury) Picard, and of Daniel and Elizabeth (Cooke) Fairchild, and a descendant of French Anabaptist emigres and Scotcli and English Puritans. He was graduated from Baldwin university, Berea, Ohio, in 1869,
