Linn County IA Archives Military Records.....Moody, Bartholomew December 1, 1862
Civilwar Co. F, 14th Iowa Vol. Infantry
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Death At Corinth
Western College Reporter, Western College,  Linn County, Iowa, December 1, 1862


Corinth, Mississippi
November 13, 1862

Bartholomew Moody, who was a student of Western College, at the time of his 
enlistment in Company F, 14th Regiment of Iowa Volunteers on the 2nd of 
October, 1861, died on the 12th of November, 1862. His age was 23 years. Up 
till the time of his brief illness, which was Lung Fever, he had enjoyed good 
health and was always able to discharge his full share of the arduous duties 
of the soldier. He was with his regiment in the battles of Fort Donelson and 
Shiloh, and it was side by side, in the ranks, that we met the terrible 
charges of the enemy at the battle of Corinth, on the 3rd and 4th of October, 
1862.

Unlike a great many of our young men, he was induced to enter the service of 
his country more from principle than novelty. He was a sincere Emancipationist 
before the Executive contemplated anything of the kind, and many of his 
shorter sighted comrades would often deride him with the term “abolitionist,” 
when a little observation would teach them that it takes a brave man to be a 
radical whilst all cowards are conservatives. He wanted nothing short of 
universal Freedom, and now every honest and intelligent friend of Republican 
institutions must acknowledge that they cannot be sustained and perpetrated if 
we stop short of anything but Universal Freedom.

His remains were followed to the grave by his company and a company of the 
First Missouri Battery, in which he had been temporarily serving since the 
battle of Corinth, and now he sleeps his last sleep on his last battle field.

“He has fought his last battle. No sound can awake him to glory again.”


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