Beatty was born near
Sandusky, Ohio. He entered the banking business in
Morrow County.
Presidential elector for
Lincoln/
Hamlin in 1860 and in 1884.
Civil War When the Civil War started, Beatty volunteered as a
private in the
3rd Ohio Infantry, serving in
western Virginia. By 1863, he was commissioned as a brigadier general following his distinguished service in the
Battle of Perryville, the
Battle of Stones River, and the
Tullahoma Campaign. He took command of a
brigade of
infantry and led it through the rest of the war. Beatty participated in the Tullahoma Campaign, the
Battle of Chickamauga, and the successful Union attack on
Missionary Ridge during the
Chattanooga Campaign. A 1909 biographer wrote that Beatty was then "the sole survivor of the electoral college of Ohio, which cast its vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and as far as known, the only surviving elector who cast a vote for President Lincoln when he was chosen to his first term almost a half century ago." Beatty was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Sandusky. ==Autobiography==