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morning, -- (the morning we left Memphis) he had recovered so much that we expected to see him among us again in the course of a few weeks, but death had selected him for his victim, and about two o,clock in the morning of the 9th he departed this life, supported by his hopes of Eternal life which he had firmly fixed on the "Eternal Rock of Ages."  His remains will be sent home for interment.
All that he had accumulated by years of toil and study, he has sacrificed for his country, just as was prepared to enter upon a career of usefulness to himself and to the world.
We shall all mourn his loss, as a true friend, a kind and affectionate leader, a devoted christian, and a genuine patriot; but our grief will be softened by the consideration, that he died not as the traitor dies; but met his fate in the Armies of Freedom, while nobly contending for the right, -- for God

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morning, -- (the morning we left Memphis) he had recovered so much that we expected to see him among us again in the course of a few weeks, but death had selected him for his victim, and about two o,clock in the morning of the 9th he departed this life, supported by his hopes of Eternal life which he had firmly fixed on the "Eternal Rock of Ages." His remains will be sent home for interment. All that he had accumulated by years of toil and study, he has sacrificed for his country, just as was prepared to enter upon a career of usefulness to himself and to the world. We shall all mourn his loss, as a true friend, a kind and affectionate leader, a devoted christian, and a genuine patriot; but our grief will be softened by the consideration, that he died not as the traitor dies; but met his fate in the Armies of Freedom, while nobly contending for the right, -- for God