Wood County OhArchives Obituaries.....Poe, J.J. December 18, 1864
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The Weekly Perrysburg Journal.  Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio. Apr 5, 1865, p. 3.
Died.

	while a prisoner of war at Salisbury, N.C., December 18, 1864, of 
Pneumonia, Sergeant J. J. Poe, 144th Regiment Ohio National Guards, formerly of 
Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, aged 25 years.

	Wood County has sent to the army, perhaps as large a number of talented 
and promising young men as any other in the State.  Many of these have fallen - 
martyrs in the cause of our beloved country.  In the death of Sergeant Poe she 
is again called upon to mourn the loss of a young man of whom she may well feel 
proud.

	He was a son of Geo. J. Poe, Esq., of Bowling Green, and was raised 
mostly at that place, and leaves there a large circle of relatives and friends.

	Although a young man of good education, and the most refined tastes, he 
conceived early a fondness for the more laborious pursuits of agriculture much 
preferring the dignity of honest toil to trade or the learned professions.

	By bringing to those pursuits a sound judgement and cultivated mind, 
and by assiduous self-culture, he soon became, on matters of husbandry, a young 
man whose influence was felt and acknowledged amoung his neighbors.

	Being a member of the Bowling Green Company of National Guards, when 
they were called out last Spring, he went with them into the field, and during 
the month of August was, with several of his comrades, taken prisoner by the 
enemy, after a brave but ineffectual struggle against vastly superior numbers.  
They were taken to Salisbury, North Carolina, last fall and there, amid the 
horrors of a prison pen, such as no one can realize who has never witnessed 
them; Sergeant Poe ended his days.  Of his manly fortitude in enduring the 
sufferings incident to prison life, his returned comrades speak in the highest 
terms.  Of his devotion to his suffering fellow prisoners they cannot say 
enough.  There is an unrecorded history of heroic deeds done there, which, 
could it be written, would far out-shine the most daring feats on the field of 
battle.  Among those who, although sick and suffering themselves, asked and 
obtained permission to nurse their dying comrades, was the subject of this 
memoir.

	His life fell forfeit to his devotion to his fellows, long persisted in 
after he was attacked by the disease which terminated it.  His manly form 
moulders in an unknown and unmarked grave, but many of his more fortunate 
companions remember with tears and blessings his efforts in their behalf, and 
his cheerful endurance of his own sufferings.  He leaves a young wife and small 
child.  May Heaven, in whose hands he commended them with his last fervent 
prayer, in the full faith of a true Christian hope, be their protector and 
their sheild [sic].

	April 4, 1865.

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