McDonough County IL Archives News.....Deserved his fate. [John H Ervine] 1861
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The Daily Dispatch, Aug 13, 1861 1861
The dead body of John H. Ervine, of Macomb, McDonough county, Illinois, was 
found on the bloody field of Manassas. The Rockingham Register says: 

The father of this young man, we learn, once lived in Rockingham county, Va., 
from whence he removed to the State in which he now resides. The father, we 
understand, probably not liking the institution of slavery, sold out some 
negroes he owned, and removed where they have no respect for people who own 
slaves. The young man, the son of this father, was a volunteer in Lincoln’s 
army of invasion. He had come to the sacred soil of the State which had given 
his father a birth-place, for the purpose of invading the homes and the 
firesides of some even of his own kindred. He fell, it is said, in a part of 
the line of battle where some of his own kindred, good and true men, were 
engaged on the side of the South. We can forgive a poor deluded Yankee who 
comes South for the purpose of fighting us; but for a miserable ingrate, whose 
father was born here, who comes to desolate our country, we have not the 
respect and sympathy which we have for a dog. 


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