Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Neal, A.J. 1864
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The Daily Constitutionalist, Augusta, Georgia, Sunday Morning Sept. 4, 1864
Obituary

We are again called upon to mourn the death of a dear friend and comrade in 
arms. Lieut. A.J. NEAL, of Perry’s Battery, has fallen at his post of duty. A 
missile from the enemy’s sharpshooters has laid low one we honored and loved. 
Lieut. Neal was born in Pike county, Ga., and at the time of his death was 
twenty-six years of age. From his earliest years he was zealously devoted to 
literary pursuits. He graduated with honor at the University of his native 
State and afterward passed a year at the University of Virginia. Having 
determined on the practice of law as a profession, he entered the law school at 
Lebanon, Tennessee, where he graduated with distinction. Not long before the 
breaking out of the war, he located at Micanopv [?], Florida, to commence that 
career of usefulness for which his long course of preparation had so eminently 
fitted him. At the first call to arms, and before the first gun had been fired 
in defence of Southern rights, he enlisted to maintain the freedom of our 
institutions, and to guard the honor and sanctity of our homes. During this 
long and bloody struggle, so faithful has he been in the performance of his 
duties, that he has not been more than sixteen days absent from his command. As 
a scholar he was ripe, finished and elegant; as a soldier he was active, 
vigilant, brave and chivalrous; as a friend he was warm, sincere and devoted; 
and as a son and brother he was most affectionate and true. His remains have 
been interred near his early home, and the grave will be bedewed by the tears 
of his bereaved and mourning relatives and friends. His blood, shed in defence 
of our sacred rights, is the rich heritage of his State and Country. - C.

Transcribed 9/24/04 Lynn Cunningham

Additional Comments:
From copy obtained at Old Jail Museum and Archives, Barnesville Georgia. 
Records compiled by Shanna English.

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