Butts County GaArchives Military Records.....Barron February 1881
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A TRIBUTE TO A FALLEN HERO

By request of an aged lady, Mrs. Barron, we publish below a letter and 
resolution.  She desired it put in print hat it might be preserved and we 
cheerfully do so, as we consider such a testimonial worthy of preservation.

Petersburg, Va., August 6th, 1864

Mr. Henry Barron,

Dear Sir:

I did not see your son die myself but one of the company  did.  He was 
perfectly willing to for I heard him say so myself.  He did not say anything 
about any one more than he wanted all of his people to know that he died at his 
post, and that he was willing to die.  I have no doubt but what he is today, in 
a better world than this.  He was shot through the bowels, through one leg and 
through one arm.  He suffered very much from the time he was shot, which was 
late in the evening until he died which was bout nine o’clock at night.  He was 
buried as well as any soldier.  He is buried near the town of Petersburg, with 
his name and Co., and Regt. On the head board of his grave.  You can get his 
remains anytime if you should wish to do so.  Anything I can do for you will be 
done with pleasure.  Enclosed find memory.

Yours as ever,

David R. Hook

Middle Ga. Argus – Week of February 3, 1881


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