OBIT: Levi POTTER, 1864, native of Bedford County, PA

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DIED - On the 27th of June, at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, 
LEVI POTTER, aged 22 years, 2 months and 26 days. Mr. Potter enlisted 
in company C, 2d Regt., O V.L., on the 26th June, 1861, at Columbus 
Ohio, and re-enlisted on the 31st of December, 1863, at Chattanooga, 
Ga. This brave soldier attested his devotion to his country's flag on 
many a hard fought field, being at the bloody field of Shiloh or 
Pittsburg Landing, assisted in driving the enemy from Missionary Ridge, 
(Lookout Mountain), and after participating in many other perilous 
engagements, he finally offered up his life a sacrifice on his 
country's altar in a charge on the enemy's works at the late battle of 
Kenesaw Mountain - the fatal ball entering above his left eye and 
coming out close to his right ear. His body was  recovered from the 
enemy's ground, under cover of the night, by Sergeant J. Sharp, who 
carried it off on his shoulders at the risk of his own life and 
deposited it in a soldier's grave - it being the only body taken from 
that bloody ground. This dear son and affectionate brother was a very 
promising young man, He was born in Bedford county and removed to 
Columbus, Ohio, at the commencement of the war. He made a profession of 
religion in early youth and connected himself with the church of his 
fathers, in which he remained a bright & shining light until his 
untimely end. We deeply sympathize with the bereaved family upon whom 
the cloud of sorrow has so heavily fallen, & commend them to the care 
of our heavenly Father, hoping that they may also live, that in the end 
they may meet with the departed son & brother, in that happy land where 
wars & deaths are unknown.
(Bedford papers please to copy)    Woodberry, Pa. July 18, 1864

Democratic Standard, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, August 3, 1864