Scott County IA Archives Obituaries.....English, Samuel Newton  July 11, 1863
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 Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) December 09, 1863
Died in camp near Vicksburg, on the 11th of July, 1863, Samuel Newton English, aged
23 years and 10 months. The deceased enlisted in Co. H, 26th Reg't. Iowa V. I., in
August, 1862, and shared in all the privations and weary marches of his comrades up
to the 11th day of January, when he was thrice wounded at Post Arkansas. After
nearly three months absence in hospital in Memphis, he returned to his regiment,
(which was then engaged in the siege of Vicksburg,) only to hear-the glad tidings of
the surrender, relapse into insensibility, and, one week later; to "sleep the sleep
that knows no waking." He had been a member of the Presbyterian church for two years
previous to his enlistment, and his place in the church and Sabbath school was
seldom vacant...

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