Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Sale, John F. February 13, 1865
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Norfolk Virginian, 12-19-1865
In Memoriam. 
It was the mournful privilege of the surviving comrades of Lieut JOHN F. SALE, 
Co. H. 12th Virginia Infantry, to accompany his remains on Sunday morning 
last, to their resting place in the Catholic Cemetery. An intimate association 
with the deceased during three years of an eventful period in the history of 
his country, enables the writer to say, that of all the noble spirits who 
volunteered themselves as sacrifices in a cause which they deemed just, there 
was not one to be found who possessed a symmetrical character more to be 
admired than Lieut. Sale's.

Absent from home when hostilities between the North and South were 
inaugurated, he hurried to his native place, and enlisted in the Norfolk 
Juniors. His qualifications as a soldier, and his inflexible integrity, soon 
won the respect and confidence of his officers and comrades.

As a private, then the 1st Sergeant, and subsequently an officer of his 
company, he exhibited, throughout the trying scenes in which he participated, 
a devotion to principle and an unswerving morality which was equalled by few, 
excelled by none. Though brave and chivalrous, his tenderness to others was 
that of a woman, and his intercourse with all was marked by a suavity of 
manner which never failed to inspire regard. Filial affection was a prominent 
trait in our deceased friend, and in his death his parents have to lament the 
loss of one whose love would have been a solace and a true source of pride in 
their declining years.

At the battle of Hatcher's Run, on the 7th of February last, while in the 
faithful discharge of his duty, he was mortally wounded, and six day after, in 
the city of Petersburg, he yielded up his spirit, thus pouring out his blood 
as a libation upon the altar of Liberty. Farewell, brave Sale.

"Death should have come
Gently to one of gentle mould like thee,
As light winds, wandering through groves of bloom
Detach the delicate blossoms from the tree."

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Interred at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Old Lots North

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