Mecklenburg County NcArchives Obituaries.....Martin, James Minor June 17, 1863
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The Standard of Raleigh, July 22, 1863
The Standard of Raleigh, July 22, 1863
  DIED, at Petersburg, Va. in the 9th North Carolina Hospital on the 17th of 
June, JAMES MINOR MARTIN, aged 22 years, nine months and ten days. He was a 
member of CAPT. ALEXANDER'S COMPANY, from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 
(56th North Carolina Regiment, Company K). His disease was typhoid fever. 
Although he died far from home and friends, he died in full hopes of meeting 
them in heaven. He was an affectionate brother and obedient son.
  The following is a letter to his father from the Captain:
  "Sir: -- I am sorry, indeed, to inform you of the death of your son, JAMES 
MINOR MARTIN, who died on last Sunday in the hospital in Petersburg, Va. of 
fever. I certainly can offer to you, as a bereaved parent, the sympathy of 
both officers and men of my company, who knew him well and can testify to his 
many manly virtues. But it certainly will be a consolation to know that he has 
fallen in the hospital, and not in the field; yet he is nevertheless a martyr 
to his country's cause. In him you have lost a son, and the Confederacy an 
excellent soldier."
   

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