Lucas County OhArchives Biographies.....Beverly Wirt Lemert 

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Beverly Wirt Lemert and his wife, Margaret (Peggy) Fleming Lemert 
lost three of their four sons during the Civil War. Thomas Jefferson Lemert 
died at the infamous Confederate Prison Camp at Andersonville, Georgia.   
He died there of starvation on September 14, 1864.   He had only been in 
service for two months.

John Lemert was a lieutenant in Company A of the 76th OVI under Capt.
Thaddeus Lemert, a cousin, and was wounded at the battle of Ringold Gap, 
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and was taken by wagon to Chattanooga, 
where he died.   In a letter home, several months before, he had written, 
"I could with pleasure and delight beat my sword into plow shares and, 
Cincinnatus like, return to tilling the soul, for I hate everything connected 
with 
the service.   But as much as I hate it and feel the privations of camp life, I 
will 
stay in the field my three years and more, rather than submit to a seperation."

His brother, Nathan Lemert was attending Granville College (Dennison College, 
now) and when the confederates attack Fort Sumner a call went out for 75,000, 
for three months service. His family knew nothing of it until he came home for 
a 
visit, wearing his blue uniform.   While in the Jefferson Barracks in Missouri, 
Nathan 
took typhoid fever and was very ill.   Capt. Thrall wrote his family and 
advised them 
of his condition and that Nathan wanted to see some of his friends.   His 
mother was 
the only person able to go and arriving at St. Louis was able to find the right 
Army 
Hospital but was unable to find the right officer to give her a pass to see 
Nathan.   
The guard in charge of the Ward told her that Nathan was dying, and in her 
desperation, 
convinced him that she was Nathan's mother and he allowed her to go in.   
Nathan 
knew her and asked her many questions but soon began to sink away.   He died 
before 
midnight on November 11, 1861, holding his mother's hand until his last breath 
was gone. 
He died at nineteen years of age, homesick and broken hearted.   His mother 
returned 
home with his body.

Edward Leroy Lemert, their last son, joined the 42nd OVI, while still at Hiram 
College 
and was sent into battle.   When his mother heard of his enlistment she went to 
the front 
lines with an order for the release of her son, Edward, because of the loss of 
three of her 
four sons.   Edward refused to go home with her .   He was wounded at the 
Battle of 
Champion Hills, Mississippi but recovered.   After the War he attended the 
University 
of Michigan Law School.
 


Additional Comments:
Information submitted by Patrick McVicker  17 April 2003

Really Wood County

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