SGT US ARMY CIVIL WAR
Killed in action, October 4, 1862, Corinth, Mississippi. 4th Sgt, Co H, 63rd Regiment,Ohio Infantry.
"Sergeant Terry, Acting First Lieutenant of my company and one of my pupils before the war, fell mortally wounded during the engagement, having received three wounds, one above the left eye, one in the breast and one in the side. As his comrades gazed upon him in the agony of death, he exhorted them, saying, "Boys, I am not afraid to die. I am where I ought to be. My country needed me or I would not have been here." Then seeing that he was drawing the attention of the company and that the enemy was again advancing, he said, "Men, keep that line dressed." These were his last words on the field. He was carried to the rear and in a short time expired." – Capt. Oscar L. Jackson, Company H, 63rd Ohio Infantry extracted from his personal journal - 'The Colonel's Diary', edited and published by David P. Jackson, M.D., Sharon, PA; 1922, p. 79-80
Contributor: Jim (47644713)
Killed in action, October 4, 1862, Corinth, Mississippi. 4th Sgt, Co H, 63rd Regiment,Ohio Infantry.
"Sergeant Terry, Acting First Lieutenant of my company and one of my pupils before the war, fell mortally wounded during the engagement, having received three wounds, one above the left eye, one in the breast and one in the side. As his comrades gazed upon him in the agony of death, he exhorted them, saying, "Boys, I am not afraid to die. I am where I ought to be. My country needed me or I would not have been here." Then seeing that he was drawing the attention of the company and that the enemy was again advancing, he said, "Men, keep that line dressed." These were his last words on the field. He was carried to the rear and in a short time expired." – Capt. Oscar L. Jackson, Company H, 63rd Ohio Infantry extracted from his personal journal - 'The Colonel's Diary', edited and published by David P. Jackson, M.D., Sharon, PA; 1922, p. 79-80
Contributor: Jim (47644713)
SGT US ARMY CIVIL WAR
Killed in action, October 4, 1862, Corinth, Mississippi. 4th Sgt, Co H, 63rd Regiment,Ohio Infantry.
"Sergeant Terry, Acting First Lieutenant of my company and one of my pupils before the war, fell mortally wounded during the engagement, having received three wounds, one above the left eye, one in the breast and one in the side. As his comrades gazed upon him in the agony of death, he exhorted them, saying, "Boys, I am not afraid to die. I am where I ought to be. My country needed me or I would not have been here." Then seeing that he was drawing the attention of the company and that the enemy was again advancing, he said, "Men, keep that line dressed." These were his last words on the field. He was carried to the rear and in a short time expired." – Capt. Oscar L. Jackson, Company H, 63rd Ohio Infantry extracted from his personal journal - 'The Colonel's Diary', edited and published by David P. Jackson, M.D., Sharon, PA; 1922, p. 79-80
Contributor: Jim (47644713)
Killed in action, October 4, 1862, Corinth, Mississippi. 4th Sgt, Co H, 63rd Regiment,Ohio Infantry.
"Sergeant Terry, Acting First Lieutenant of my company and one of my pupils before the war, fell mortally wounded during the engagement, having received three wounds, one above the left eye, one in the breast and one in the side. As his comrades gazed upon him in the agony of death, he exhorted them, saying, "Boys, I am not afraid to die. I am where I ought to be. My country needed me or I would not have been here." Then seeing that he was drawing the attention of the company and that the enemy was again advancing, he said, "Men, keep that line dressed." These were his last words on the field. He was carried to the rear and in a short time expired." – Capt. Oscar L. Jackson, Company H, 63rd Ohio Infantry extracted from his personal journal - 'The Colonel's Diary', edited and published by David P. Jackson, M.D., Sharon, PA; 1922, p. 79-80
Contributor: Jim (47644713)
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