Wood County OhArchives Obituaries.....Underwood, John S. And James C. 1863
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The Weekly Perrysburg Journal.  Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio. Sep 9, 1863, p. 3.
DIED.

	John S. and James C. Underwood.  John was wounded at the battle of 
Vicksburg, on the 20th of May, 1863, and died two days after, aged 25 years, 3 
months, 3 days.  James, on the steamer City of Memphis, on the 28th of June, 
1863, aged 19 years, 8 months, 3 days.

	A funeral discourse will be preached on the 20th of September at 10 
o'clock A.M., at the Johnston School House, three miles east of Portage.

	[We are permitted to make the following extract from a letter 
announcing the above sad intelligence to the mother of the deceased:]

	Camp in Field, near Bear Creek Miss.,

	July 30, 1863.

Mrs Underwood - Dear Madam:  A few days ago we received the sad intelligence of 
your son James' death; he died on the steamer City of Memphis, on the 28th of 
June, with chronic diarrhea.  We left him sick at Vicksburg, when we marched 
from there some weeks ago, little thinking that it would be the last time we 
should be permitted to see him.  Mrs. Underwood, you have lost a second good 
son; his comrades in arms have lost a firm friend; and his country a brave and 
good soldier.  He has given up his life for his country.  John also died while 
engaged in deadly strife with the enemy.  Never were there two better soldiers 
than your sons, John and James.  It is a hard sacrifice for a mother to offer 
to her country two noble boys, but her loss is their gain.

	Truly yours, A.P. Johnson, O.SW., Co. C, 72d Reg.

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