Randolph County AlArchives Obituaries.....Spruce, John H.  May 3, 1863
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 Jacksonville Republican
Camp Gregg, near Fredericksburg, 
May 11, 1863
To the memory of John H. Spruce, Co. D, 13th Ala, Vols, who fell on Sunday the 
3d inst. while gallantly charging our common enemy's entrenchments after having 
gone with his company and regiment and captured a battery of three guns. 
This estimable young man was among the first respond to the call of his country 
twenty months ago. He was a member of the Randolph Mountaineers from Randolph 
County, Ala. which was the first company organized in our county. This company 
was attached to the 13th Regiment Ala. Vols. commanded by Col, B. D. Fry, on 
19th July 1861, and immediately ordered to the State of VA., where it has since 
been fronting the enemy. Johnnie, by his gentlemanly bearing, strict integrity, 
genial spirit, and ready obedience had won for himself the unbound confidence of 
his officers, and the admiration of all his companions in arms.
All his officers bear testimony to his gallantry and bravery. To know him was to 
love him. He believed as only a young man can believe received into his heart 
without a doubt, that Christ died to save his soul, and in him like faith, 
passed from earth to Heaven. 
We all loved him as a brother, we feel the blessings of his parents near 
Kind friends have soothed his pillow,
Have watched his every care, Beneath the weeping willow we gently laid him down. 
Fond, mourning parents! methinks in gentle whispers the departed one thus speaks 
to you.
Oh, weep no more, dear father, 
That I am called away, 
My Savior bade me hither, 
Whom you taught me to obey. 
You would not have my spirit back, 
To its frail form again, 
To languish weary days and nights, 
On my little couch of pain. 
His company mourns its irreparable loss of a brave member, and tender to the 
bereaved parents and friends of the deceased, our heartfelt sympathy. 
A. S. R.

Additional Comments:
War Record:
Name:  Spruce, John H.
Birth Information:  USA, Alabama.
Occupation:  Farmer.
Marital Status:  Single.
Enlistment Date:  1861/07/19
Enlistment Information:  Private; Age 21-years; Enlisted At Montgomery,Alabama.
Engagements:  Present: Seige of Yorktown, '62/04/05 to '62/05/03; Seven Pines, 
Va. '62/05/31; Mechanicsville, Va. '62/06/27; Wounded, Cold Harbor (Turky 
Ridge)'62/06/27; Absent (wounded) Malvern Hill, Va. '62/07/01 thru Sharpsburg, 
Md. '62/09/17. ; Killed, Chancellorsville, Va. '63
Date of Death:  1863/05/03
Death Information:  Killed, Battle Of Chancellorsville, Va.
Branch:  Infantry
Regiment:  13th Alabama
Company:  D
Comments:  P.O.: Wedowee, Alabama.
Source:  Historical Record Roll, dated near Petersburg, Va., '65/02/21.

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