Fairfield County CT Archives Obituaries.....Taylor, James Lawrence June 11, 1861

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Stamford Soldiers' Memorial 1869
  JAMES LAWRENCE TAYLOR, 5th N. Y., Duryee's Zouaves, son of James and Jane E.
Taylor, and born in New York City, Sept. 7, 1840, was one of the earliest
volunteers from the town. And he entered the service with all his heart, ready
to dare and die if necessary. No importunity of his friends could dissuade him.
His patriot plea for their consent was: " Could I be so craven as to prefer
comfort with those I love, ease and luxury at home, while others are laying down
their lives on the battlefield?" Though ill, on that fatal night when his
company was ordered to prepare for the attack on Great Bethel, he was one of the
first men ready for the march. And on the march of some twenty miles, he was
buoyant and cheerful, with his never failing words of encouragement for his
comrades, who were disposed to doubts and fears.

  They approach the object of their march. Forewarned, the rebels are strongly
entrenched behind their masked batteries. The forlorn charge is sounded and the
desperate attempt fails. Early in the movement Taylor fell from a musket ball
and was taken to the rear by his chaplain, Winslow, and Lieut.-Col. Warren, and
provided for, in a family by the name of Dawson, about two miles from where he
had fallen. There, after a night of suffering, with no word of complaint, yet,
despite the mortal agony which was fast conquering his young life, with words of
heroic cheer for the dear ones he had left behind, he breathed his last. "Tell
them, I died on the battlefield, in a holy and glorious cause."

  And so, the first representative from Stamford died, on the morning of June
11, 1861; and as its light dawned, they buried his remains in a field near the
place of his last sufferings. His comrades, his colonel and his chaplain, agree
in their affectionate testimonials to his excellent character, and to his
admirable soldierly conduct. And no one can tell the loss which the stricken
family felt when this dutiful son and loving brother, was so suddenly stricken
down. But was it not honorable thus to die, on the same field, and in the same
engagement in which Winthrop and Greble fell?

  In June, 1865, his remains were recovered and now rest in the family lot at
Greenwood.


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