Wood County OhArchives Obituaries.....Spafford, Lieut. Ara C. 1864
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The Weekly Perrysburg Journal.  Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio. Jan 4, 1865, p. 3.
Died.

	At Charleston, S.C., of Yellow Fever, Lieut. Ara C. Spafford, 21st 
O.V.V.I., in the 28th year of his age.

	Lieut. Spafford early enlisted to fight the battles of freedom, and had 
by his good conduct, won for himself the position which he held at the time of 
his death.  AT the battle of Murfreesboro he was wounded in the wrist and neck 
by the same ball.  In September, 1863, he as captured and sent to Libby 
prison.  While in the Libby, his wants could be supplied by friends at home, 
but after Grants advance in the spring, he, with the other prisoners was sent 
to Columbia, Georgia.  From this prison he escaped, but while swimming a river, 
on his way to the lines of his friends, he was recaptured and taken back.  What 
his history was during the long months of imprisonment, there is little data 
for determining, but undoubtedly it was not different from that of others who 
have been starved and frozen into the grave by those who profess to have all 
the chivalry of the American nation!  God save us from such chivalry!

	The particulars of his death have not yet reached his friends; they 
only know he died, and was buried at Charleston.  The fond hopes which were 
indulged by an anxious mother and waiting wife, of a speedy return, have been 
dashed to the ground, and weeping and anguish are in the houses which would 
have been filled with joy on his return.  What to them can fill the place of a 
kind and affectionate son, a generous and confiding husband?

	Who shall minister to the mother's lone heart, or care for little ones 
and their mother?

	May God have them in his safe keeping, sustain in sorry, and save from 
earthly want.

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