at Mill Springs, Corinth, Stone River, Hoover's Gap, and Chickamauga. At Chickamauga, his left arm was wounded and permanently crippled. Ward was appointed colonel of the 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry on March 1, 1864. He resigned his commission on November 8, 1864. On January 13, 1866 President Andrew Johnson nominated Ward for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general, to rank from October 18, 1865, for his "gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Chickamauga," and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on March 12, 1866. Postbellum career 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 Ohio General Assembly. 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. In 1883, Ward was president of the Ohio State Bar Association. Death Jesse Durbin Ward died at Lebanon, Ohio on May 22, 1886. He was buried at Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Ohio. See also List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union) Notes References Dallas R. Bogan. Warren County's Involvement in the Civil War. Franklin, Ohio: The Author, 1991. Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . Josiah Morrow. The History of Warren County, Ohio. Chicago: W.H. Beers, 1883. Further reading External links |- |- 1819 births 1886 deaths 19th-century American newspaper founders 19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) Methodists from Ohio American newspaper publishers (people) County district attorneys in Ohio Members of the Ohio House of Representatives Miami University alumni Ohio lawyers Ohio state senators Ohio Whigs 19th-century American politicians People from Augusta, Kentucky Politicians from Cincinnati People from Lebanon, Ohio People of Ohio in the American Civil War Union Army generals United States Attorneys for the Southern District of Ohio 19th-century American journalists American male journalists 19th-century American male writers Journalists from Ohio Southern Methodists