Guernsey County OhArchives Obituaries.....Brachen, John L.  January 9, 1863
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Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1860-1898: February 4, 1863
Died January 9th, in the hospital at Nashville, Tennessee, of typhoid fever, John L.
Brachen, a member of Co. B, 97th Reg't. O. V. I. Mr. Brachen was born in Washington
County, Pa., June 11th, 1886. He was a child of the covenant early dedicated to God
by Christian parents. He received that early, religious training which we are
assured, shall not lose its reward... About the year 1852 he, with his father's
family, moved into the bounds of Cumberland, O., and became connected with the
Presbyterian church in this place. 
After the troubles in our country broke out, he often felt it his duty to go forth
in its defense, but never fully made up his mind to volunteer until the 6th of
August last, when he and his younger brother, W. Smith, resolved they would go
forth, and if necessary, die in the discharge of their duty. On the 11th of the same
month they, with a number of others, left for Camp Zanesville. He proved true to the
obligations he assumed. Besides some skirmishes, he was in no battle except the one
at Perrysville, Ky., October 10th, 1862. Soon after, his regiment went to Nashville.
There he was first taken with lung fever; ere he recovered sufficiently for duty, he
was attacked with measles, and then fell a victim to that terrible disease, typhoid
fever... 

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