Polk County IA Archives Obituaries.....MATHIAS, JAMES H. September 3, 1862
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 "AMERICAN PATRIOTISM" OR, MEMOIRS OF 'COMMON MEN.'" by LEONARD BROWN, 1869
JAMES H. MATHIAS
Lived near Cory Grove, in Elkhart Township, Polk Co., a well-to-do farmer; left
an interesting family of children, who have now neither father nor mother. "He
was a good man, honest, faithful, and patriotic; fought bravely in the battle of
Shiloh; was one of the few of his company to endure the fatigue and exposure of
the siege of Corinth to the end of the campaign. Soon after the evacuation of
Corinth he was taken sick," reports Captain A. G. Studer. Mathias's age, when he
died, was thirty-two; he was a native of Kentucky; private; enlisted Oct. 15,
1861; died at Jackson, Tenn., Sept. 3d, 1862, of disease. He told a companion to
carry to his children the intelligence that he was fully prepared to die; and to
say to them in his name, be religious; do right; prepare to meet me in heaven."


Additional Comments:
This is taken from "AMERICAN PATRIOTISM" OR, MEMOIRS OF 'COMMON MEN.'" by
LEONARD BROWN, published by Redhead & Wellslager, 41 Court Ave.Des Moines,IA. 1869.
This book contains remembrances of fallen soldiers from Polk County during the
Civil War. This includes some genealogical material as well.

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