Taylor County GaArchives Photo tombstone.....Gassett, John Harris 
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Agnes Gassett AGH55@aol.com  October 19, 2004, 4:30 pm

Source: Antioch Baptist
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Gassett, William H. (CSA)
(no dates)
                          

(son of Charles M. and Elizabeth Bland Gassett)

From Antioch Baptist Church History:
The old church showed the touch of the war's mockery as but few of our boys 
from Antioch survived. Among those returning was the dauntless sharp-shooter, 
W.H. Gassett, than whom no braver soldier ever donned uniform or shoulderd a 
gun fighting the four bitter years without once returning home.' 

Later after his return home, this W.H. Gassett was 'given another post of 
trust' and made a deacon of the church. After his death it was recorded 
that 'he bore aloft the banner of his stewardship as loyally, as 
conscientiously and fearlessly as he did the flag of the Southern Confederacy 
and now that the muffled drum's sad roll has beat this soldier's last tatto, he 
lies sleeping in the churchyard and the place which knew him once shall know 
him no more forever. Soldier of God and Lee, we salute thee'. 


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