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He was born on June 29, 1819 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, the son of Judge Benjamin M. and Elizabeth (Barnett) Piatt. Benjamin and Elizabeth Piatt possessed the hardy spirit of pioneers, tempered somewhat by an untutored appreciation of literature and the arts. Donn was the ninth of their ten children.
In 1827 the family moved to a homestead, "Mac-o-cheek, " near West Liberty, Ohio.
He laid the foundations of his education at the district school of West Liberty, Ohio, which was continued in the public schools of Urbana and at the Athenaeum, now St. Xavier College, Cincinnati. At each of these institutions he gave evidence of brilliant but erratic abilities.
Destined by his father for the law, he soon developed an ungovernable distaste for the machinery of legal practice, from which he found a temporary escape in active participation in the political campaign of 1840, during which he not only distinguished himself by his speeches, but also undertook the first of his editorial ventures, the Democratic Club, published at West Liberty. In this short-lived paper he first exhibited his talent for broad humor and crushing invective.
After his marriage he gave up the law and retired from Cincinnati to "Mac-o-chee, " whence both he and his wife contributed articles to various newspapers. In 1852 he was appointed judge of the court of common pleas of Hamilton County, a position from which he resigned the following year in order to take his wife to Paris for medical treatment. In France he served with distinction as secretary to the American legation until his return to "Mac-o-chee" in 1855.
At the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned captain in the 13th Ohio Infantry, April 30, 1861, and the following year, November 4, was promoted to the rank of major. On January 1, 1863, he was made a lieutenant-colonel and later acted as chief of staff to Gen. Robert C. Schenck. In the absence of General Schenck, he ordered Col. William Birney, who was in Maryland recruiting a colored brigade, to enlist slaves only. For this unauthorized action President Lincoln reprimanded and threatened to cashier him, but he was saved by the intercessions of Stanton and Chase. He was active in the campaign of 1863, when he showed his soldierly acumen by ordering Milroy to evacuate Winchester.
After the war he returned to his old pursuits, and in 1865 was elected to the Ohio legislature, where he served one term. In 1868 he moved to Washington as correspondent to the Cincinnati Commercial; for a few months in 1871 he was also editor of a department in the Galaxy known as the "Club Room. "
In 1871 he became, with George Alfred Townsend, co-editor and founder of the weekly Capital. Piatt continued in active editorship for nine years.
After the Presidential election of 1876 he denounced the formation of the Electoral Commission as robbing the people of the right of self-government and condemned its subsequent actions as defeating the will of the people.
On his withdrawal from Washington in 1880, he devoted himself to literary composition. In 1887 he published Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union, a group of essays on Lincoln, Seward, Chase, Thomas, and others. The following year The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales appeared.
Piatt died at his country house, "Mac-o-chee, " where his last years had been spent.
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Quotations: "If a man thus returned to power can ride in safety from the executive mansion to the Capitol to be inaugurated, we are fitted for the slavery that will follow the inauguration. "
In 1847 he married to Louise Kirby. His wife having died in 1864, he married in 1866 her sister, Ella Kirby, whose injuries two years later in a railway accident necessitated their removal to New York.
