Allegheny County PA Archives Obituaries.....Beer, Henry L.  November 30, 1863
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 Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) January 27, 1864
Died at the Marine Hospital, near New Orleans, November 30th, 1863, Sergeant Henry
L. Beer, Co. H, 42d O. V. I., son of Wm. Beer, of Allegheny County. At the
commencement of the war he was in Canada engaged in a lucrative business. This he
left, returned home and enlisted for the war, a private. The company was already
organized, and had started before he could leave home. He asked and sought no
position but such as he might win upon the field of honor. He reached the company in
Eastern Kentucky, and was with it in all its operations through to Pound Gap; thence
through Central Kentucky to Cumberland Gap; to Charleston, West Virginia; to Bayou
Chickasaw, Arkansas Post, Vicksburg, Jackson, and New Orleans, where he was thrown
into the hospital by the disease of which he died. The same patriotic feelings that
caused him to enter the service, followed him through his entire military career. In
the smoke of battle, on the scout, in camp, or on picket duty, be was ever brave,
daring, vigilant, faithful, honored and trusted by his officers and beloved by his
companions. As a reward of merit, he was promoted to a sergeantcy, and had his life
been spared, he would doubtless have won a commission. He was worthy of any rank in
the gift of his Colonel. As his life was that of a true soldier, so his death was
illustrated alike by the glory of the patriot soldier and the graces of the
Christian…

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