Fairfield County CT Archives Obituaries.....Hobby, Horace P. November 17, 1866

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Stamford Soldiers' Memorial 1869
  HORACE P. HOBBY Co. D, 6th Conn., an excellent soldier and officer, one of the
six sons of HARVEY HOBBY, of Stamford, who volunteered for the service, was
captured near Bermuda Hundred, June 17, 1864, and with the others of his company
captured with him, was taken to Richmond, and began his experience of prison
life in Libby. He was removed to Andersonville, and successively endured the
privations of Millen, Savannah, Charleston, and Florence, until the Thanksgiving
morning of November, 1864, when he was taken up by two attendants and borne out
from his prison to be sent to Annapolis for exchange—" the happiest
thanksgiving," he said to his mother, on reaching home, December 29th, "that I
ever knew." At home he lingered on in great suffering and weakness for nearly
two years, yet never able to rally after the horrible sufferings of those
wasting months, —more heroic even than on the battle field, where he had never
flinched, until, a patient and brave martyr, he went to his rest and triumph,
November 17, 1866, aged twenty-one years.

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