1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Stephen G Jobe
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 6
Birth Year: abt 1844
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1850: Washington, Warren, Ohio, USA
Attended School: Yes
Line Number: 28
Dwelling Number: 34
Family Number: 34
Household Members Age
Thomas Jobe 39
Catharine Jobe 21
1860 United States Federal Census
Name: Stephen G Jobe
Age: 16
Birth Year: abt 1844
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Place: Ohio
Home in 1860: Adams, Clinton, Ohio
Post Office: Sligo
Dwelling Number: 750
Family Number: 750
Attended School: Y
Household Members Age
Thomas Jobe 49
Catharine Jobe 32
U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: Stephen G. Jobe
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: Ohio
Regiment: 12th Regiment, Ohio Infantry
Company: B
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Private
Alternate Name: Stephen G. Jobe
Film Number: M552 roll 55
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Name: Stephen G Jobe
Enlistment Age: 18
Birth Date: abt 1843
Enlistment Date: 22 Apr 1861
Enlistment Rank: Private
Muster Date: 22 Apr 1861
Muster Place: Ohio
Muster Company: B
Muster Regiment: 12th Infantry
Muster Regiment Type: Infantry
Muster Information: Enlisted
Muster Out Date: 20 Jun 1861
Muster Out Information: Mustered Out
Side of War: Union
Survived War?: No
Additional Notes: Last name: Job or Jobe
Additional Notes 2: Muster 2 Date: 20 Jun 1861; Muster 2 Place: Ohio; Muster 2 Unit: 1757; Muster 2
Company: B; Muster 2 Regiment: 12th Infantry; Muster 2 Regiment Type: Infantry; Muster 2 Information:
Enlisted; MusterOut 2 Date: 13 Nov 1861; MusterOut 2 Place: Gauley Bridge, West Virginia; MusterOut 2
Information: died disease;
Title: Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio
"The Wilmington Journal" Wilmington, Ohio
Wednesday, December 20, 1911, Page 6
With The Soldiers Fifty Years Ago
Just a half-century ago Captain A. E. Strickle and others left Wilmington with a number of boxes and barrels of things to wear and to eat, donated and prepared by the good women of Wilmington, for our soldiers in the field, and after distributing them and returning home made a report to the the columns of W. B. Fisher's paper, as follows:
To The Editor:
With your permission, I will occupy a small space in your paper in saying a few things to the citizens of Clinton County, who responded so liberally to the call of the Governor of Ohio by way of contributions to our needy volunteer soldiers.
November 28, I started, in company with Dr. G. F. Birdsall, R. B. Harlan and others, from Cincinnati to visit our troops in West Virginia. Some of these we found on the Kanawha, New and Gauley Rivers.
The twefth Regiment, of which Captain A. W. Doan's company constituted a part, we found at Camp Haddleston, some five or six miles below Gauley Bridge, on the Kanawha River. Here we found a number of our Clinton County boys, but on looking over our list we found several absentees, and on inquiry found they were either in regimental or post hospitals. This regiment constitutes a part of Brigadier General Bentam's Brigade.
At the headquarters of this brigade we opened several boxes of our donation goods. We had the assistance of Captain Doan, D. T. Adams, E. T. Moore, J. H. McMillan and others in the distribution of your gifts. It was a treat, truly, to witness the faces of the boys at the time they were receiving the
contributions sent to them by their kind fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, friends and neighbors.
It was strange to look upon the face of a soldier whose eye never quailed in the presence of the hostile foe, yet on the receipt of your generosity and kindness would fill to the brim; the tears would course down their manly cheeks at the recollection of the "loved ones at home."
That was a part of the reward we received for our toil.
We afterwards took up our line of march, and after six hours of tugging through the mud we arrived with the remainder of our goods at Camp Gauley, and drove up to the headquarters of Lieutenants Lindsay and Chapman.
Here we found our old comrade, Judge Harlan, who had made an advance march a few days before.
We have made a distribution much after the fashion we had previously done at Camp Huddleston, with the difference that it was on a more gigantic scale, as there more of our Clinton County boys in the Eleventh than in the Twelfth Regiment.
What has been said of the emotions and kind feelings of the boys of Captain Doan's company is applicable to those of this regiment, as well as those that I afterwards found scattered through other regiments.
I took some pains to procure the signatures of most of those to whom we delivered your donations, and for the satisfaction of anyone interested I will, with pleasure, give further personal information in regard to any matter connected therewith.
I would remark in this connection that the means of transportation of the sick from the regiments to the post hospitals, is greatly deficient. The want of comforts for the sick on the Governments boats is perfectly awful. Neither proper food, medical attention nor bedding, for either sick or well, being forthcoming.
We next went in search of our boys that were sick. We found them scattered from Cincinnati to the Kanawha. We supplied their wants as far as we had the means, so far as clothing for their persons and bunks were concerned. We made a personal examination of the hospitals at Gallipolis, Charleston, Red House, Gauley and etc. We found some twelve hundred inmates in these establishments.
It is impracticable for us to speak in detail as to the condition and management of these departments of the army; suffice it to say that they generally seemed to be in the hands of competent and careful surgeons.
I found one of our boys at the post hospital, near Gauley Bridge, quite sick. He was quite ill when I first saw him, although his surgeon did not regard him as dangerously ill.
The person I refer to is Samuel G. Jobe, son of Thomas Jobe, who resides near Clarksville. When I first saw him I went to the hospital to give him the blankets sent to him by his friend, Judge Austin, and the other goods sent to him by his father. His disease was typhoid fever. I told him the object of my visit; I gave him, as he lay on his bunk, the articles sent to him and his physician receipted for them. I told him who had sent them to him. The big tears filled his jaundiced eyes as he thanked me and those who had thus remembered him. I told him I hoped he soon would bell. He replied he did not know. I visited him
again three or fours days afterward and found him worse. Some two days afterward I again visited him and found him dead.
I saw him put in his coffin. He was buried on the side of the mountain, about two hundred rods above the Kanawha Falls.
He now sleeps amid the roar of the waters as they madly rush over the mighty falls of the Kanawha River.
Let me say to his friends that everything was done for him that skillful surgeons could do to save him. He died in defense of the Constitution and the laws of his country; therefore, weep not for him.
You will excuse the length of this communication, as I could not well abridge more than I have done.
Name: Stephen G Jobe
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 6
Birth Year: abt 1844
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1850: Washington, Warren, Ohio, USA
Attended School: Yes
Line Number: 28
Dwelling Number: 34
Family Number: 34
Household Members Age
Thomas Jobe 39
Catharine Jobe 21
1860 United States Federal Census
Name: Stephen G Jobe
Age: 16
Birth Year: abt 1844
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Place: Ohio
Home in 1860: Adams, Clinton, Ohio
Post Office: Sligo
Dwelling Number: 750
Family Number: 750
Attended School: Y
Household Members Age
Thomas Jobe 49
Catharine Jobe 32
U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: Stephen G. Jobe
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: Ohio
Regiment: 12th Regiment, Ohio Infantry
Company: B
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Private
Alternate Name: Stephen G. Jobe
Film Number: M552 roll 55
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Name: Stephen G Jobe
Enlistment Age: 18
Birth Date: abt 1843
Enlistment Date: 22 Apr 1861
Enlistment Rank: Private
Muster Date: 22 Apr 1861
Muster Place: Ohio
Muster Company: B
Muster Regiment: 12th Infantry
Muster Regiment Type: Infantry
Muster Information: Enlisted
Muster Out Date: 20 Jun 1861
Muster Out Information: Mustered Out
Side of War: Union
Survived War?: No
Additional Notes: Last name: Job or Jobe
Additional Notes 2: Muster 2 Date: 20 Jun 1861; Muster 2 Place: Ohio; Muster 2 Unit: 1757; Muster 2
Company: B; Muster 2 Regiment: 12th Infantry; Muster 2 Regiment Type: Infantry; Muster 2 Information:
Enlisted; MusterOut 2 Date: 13 Nov 1861; MusterOut 2 Place: Gauley Bridge, West Virginia; MusterOut 2
Information: died disease;
Title: Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio
"The Wilmington Journal" Wilmington, Ohio
Wednesday, December 20, 1911, Page 6
With The Soldiers Fifty Years Ago
Just a half-century ago Captain A. E. Strickle and others left Wilmington with a number of boxes and barrels of things to wear and to eat, donated and prepared by the good women of Wilmington, for our soldiers in the field, and after distributing them and returning home made a report to the the columns of W. B. Fisher's paper, as follows:
To The Editor:
With your permission, I will occupy a small space in your paper in saying a few things to the citizens of Clinton County, who responded so liberally to the call of the Governor of Ohio by way of contributions to our needy volunteer soldiers.
November 28, I started, in company with Dr. G. F. Birdsall, R. B. Harlan and others, from Cincinnati to visit our troops in West Virginia. Some of these we found on the Kanawha, New and Gauley Rivers.
The twefth Regiment, of which Captain A. W. Doan's company constituted a part, we found at Camp Haddleston, some five or six miles below Gauley Bridge, on the Kanawha River. Here we found a number of our Clinton County boys, but on looking over our list we found several absentees, and on inquiry found they were either in regimental or post hospitals. This regiment constitutes a part of Brigadier General Bentam's Brigade.
At the headquarters of this brigade we opened several boxes of our donation goods. We had the assistance of Captain Doan, D. T. Adams, E. T. Moore, J. H. McMillan and others in the distribution of your gifts. It was a treat, truly, to witness the faces of the boys at the time they were receiving the
contributions sent to them by their kind fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, friends and neighbors.
It was strange to look upon the face of a soldier whose eye never quailed in the presence of the hostile foe, yet on the receipt of your generosity and kindness would fill to the brim; the tears would course down their manly cheeks at the recollection of the "loved ones at home."
That was a part of the reward we received for our toil.
We afterwards took up our line of march, and after six hours of tugging through the mud we arrived with the remainder of our goods at Camp Gauley, and drove up to the headquarters of Lieutenants Lindsay and Chapman.
Here we found our old comrade, Judge Harlan, who had made an advance march a few days before.
We have made a distribution much after the fashion we had previously done at Camp Huddleston, with the difference that it was on a more gigantic scale, as there more of our Clinton County boys in the Eleventh than in the Twelfth Regiment.
What has been said of the emotions and kind feelings of the boys of Captain Doan's company is applicable to those of this regiment, as well as those that I afterwards found scattered through other regiments.
I took some pains to procure the signatures of most of those to whom we delivered your donations, and for the satisfaction of anyone interested I will, with pleasure, give further personal information in regard to any matter connected therewith.
I would remark in this connection that the means of transportation of the sick from the regiments to the post hospitals, is greatly deficient. The want of comforts for the sick on the Governments boats is perfectly awful. Neither proper food, medical attention nor bedding, for either sick or well, being forthcoming.
We next went in search of our boys that were sick. We found them scattered from Cincinnati to the Kanawha. We supplied their wants as far as we had the means, so far as clothing for their persons and bunks were concerned. We made a personal examination of the hospitals at Gallipolis, Charleston, Red House, Gauley and etc. We found some twelve hundred inmates in these establishments.
It is impracticable for us to speak in detail as to the condition and management of these departments of the army; suffice it to say that they generally seemed to be in the hands of competent and careful surgeons.
I found one of our boys at the post hospital, near Gauley Bridge, quite sick. He was quite ill when I first saw him, although his surgeon did not regard him as dangerously ill.
The person I refer to is Samuel G. Jobe, son of Thomas Jobe, who resides near Clarksville. When I first saw him I went to the hospital to give him the blankets sent to him by his friend, Judge Austin, and the other goods sent to him by his father. His disease was typhoid fever. I told him the object of my visit; I gave him, as he lay on his bunk, the articles sent to him and his physician receipted for them. I told him who had sent them to him. The big tears filled his jaundiced eyes as he thanked me and those who had thus remembered him. I told him I hoped he soon would bell. He replied he did not know. I visited him
again three or fours days afterward and found him worse. Some two days afterward I again visited him and found him dead.
I saw him put in his coffin. He was buried on the side of the mountain, about two hundred rods above the Kanawha Falls.
He now sleeps amid the roar of the waters as they madly rush over the mighty falls of the Kanawha River.
Let me say to his friends that everything was done for him that skillful surgeons could do to save him. He died in defense of the Constitution and the laws of his country; therefore, weep not for him.
You will excuse the length of this communication, as I could not well abridge more than I have done.
1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Stephen G Jobe
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 6
Birth Year: abt 1844
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1850: Washington, Warren, Ohio, USA
Attended School: Yes
Line Number: 28
Dwelling Number: 34
Family Number: 34
Household Members Age
Thomas Jobe 39
Catharine Jobe 21
1860 United States Federal Census
Name: Stephen G Jobe
Age: 16
Birth Year: abt 1844
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Place: Ohio
Home in 1860: Adams, Clinton, Ohio
Post Office: Sligo
Dwelling Number: 750
Family Number: 750
Attended School: Y
Household Members Age
Thomas Jobe 49
Catharine Jobe 32
U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: Stephen G. Jobe
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: Ohio
Regiment: 12th Regiment, Ohio Infantry
Company: B
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Private
Alternate Name: Stephen G. Jobe
Film Number: M552 roll 55
Other Records:
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Name: Stephen G Jobe
Enlistment Age: 18
Birth Date: abt 1843
Enlistment Date: 22 Apr 1861
Enlistment Rank: Private
Muster Date: 22 Apr 1861
Muster Place: Ohio
Muster Company: B
Muster Regiment: 12th Infantry
Muster Regiment Type: Infantry
Muster Information: Enlisted
Muster Out Date: 20 Jun 1861
Muster Out Information: Mustered Out
Side of War: Union
Survived War?: No
Additional Notes: Last name: Job or Jobe
Additional Notes 2: Muster 2 Date: 20 Jun 1861; Muster 2 Place: Ohio; Muster 2 Unit: 1757; Muster 2
Company: B; Muster 2 Regiment: 12th Infantry; Muster 2 Regiment Type: Infantry; Muster 2 Information:
Enlisted; MusterOut 2 Date: 13 Nov 1861; MusterOut 2 Place: Gauley Bridge, West Virginia; MusterOut 2
Information: died disease;
Title: Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio
"The Wilmington Journal" Wilmington, Ohio
Wednesday, December 20, 1911, Page 6
With The Soldiers Fifty Years Ago
Just a half-century ago Captain A. E. Strickle and others left Wilmington with a number of boxes and barrels of things to wear and to eat, donated and prepared by the good women of Wilmington, for our soldiers in the field, and after distributing them and returning home made a report to the the columns of W. B. Fisher's paper, as follows:
To The Editor:
With your permission, I will occupy a small space in your paper in saying a few things to the citizens of Clinton County, who responded so liberally to the call of the Governor of Ohio by way of contributions to our needy volunteer soldiers.
November 28, I started, in company with Dr. G. F. Birdsall, R. B. Harlan and others, from Cincinnati to visit our troops in West Virginia. Some of these we found on the Kanawha, New and Gauley Rivers.
The twefth Regiment, of which Captain A. W. Doan's company constituted a part, we found at Camp Haddleston, some five or six miles below Gauley Bridge, on the Kanawha River. Here we found a number of our Clinton County boys, but on looking over our list we found several absentees, and on inquiry found they were either in regimental or post hospitals. This regiment constitutes a part of Brigadier General Bentam's Brigade.
At the headquarters of this brigade we opened several boxes of our donation goods. We had the assistance of Captain Doan, D. T. Adams, E. T. Moore, J. H. McMillan and others in the distribution of your gifts. It was a treat, truly, to witness the faces of the boys at the time they were receiving the
contributions sent to them by their kind fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, friends and neighbors.
It was strange to look upon the face of a soldier whose eye never quailed in the presence of the hostile foe, yet on the receipt of your generosity and kindness would fill to the brim; the tears would course down their manly cheeks at the recollection of the "loved ones at home."
That was a part of the reward we received for our toil.
We afterwards took up our line of march, and after six hours of tugging through the mud we arrived with the remainder of our goods at Camp Gauley, and drove up to the headquarters of Lieutenants Lindsay and Chapman.
Here we found our old comrade, Judge Harlan, who had made an advance march a few days before.
We have made a distribution much after the fashion we had previously done at Camp Huddleston, with the difference that it was on a more gigantic scale, as there more of our Clinton County boys in the Eleventh than in the Twelfth Regiment.
What has been said of the emotions and kind feelings of the boys of Captain Doan's company is applicable to those of this regiment, as well as those that I afterwards found scattered through other regiments.
I took some pains to procure the signatures of most of those to whom we delivered your donations, and for the satisfaction of anyone interested I will, with pleasure, give further personal information in regard to any matter connected therewith.
I would remark in this connection that the means of transportation of the sick from the regiments to the post hospitals, is greatly deficient. The want of comforts for the sick on the Governments boats is perfectly awful. Neither proper food, medical attention nor bedding, for either sick or well, being forthcoming.
We next went in search of our boys that were sick. We found them scattered from Cincinnati to the Kanawha. We supplied their wants as far as we had the means, so far as clothing for their persons and bunks were concerned. We made a personal examination of the hospitals at Gallipolis, Charleston, Red House, Gauley and etc. We found some twelve hundred inmates in these establishments.
It is impracticable for us to speak in detail as to the condition and management of these departments of the army; suffice it to say that they generally seemed to be in the hands of competent and careful surgeons.
I found one of our boys at the post hospital, near Gauley Bridge, quite sick. He was quite ill when I first saw him, although his surgeon did not regard him as dangerously ill.
The person I refer to is Samuel G. Jobe, son of Thomas Jobe, who resides near Clarksville. When I first saw him I went to the hospital to give him the blankets sent to him by his friend, Judge Austin, and the other goods sent to him by his father. His disease was typhoid fever. I told him the object of my visit; I gave him, as he lay on his bunk, the articles sent to him and his physician receipted for them. I told him who had sent them to him. The big tears filled his jaundiced eyes as he thanked me and those who had thus remembered him. I told him I hoped he soon would bell. He replied he did not know. I visited him
again three or fours days afterward and found him worse. Some two days afterward I again visited him and found him dead.
I saw him put in his coffin. He was buried on the side of the mountain, about two hundred rods above the Kanawha Falls.
He now sleeps amid the roar of the waters as they madly rush over the mighty falls of the Kanawha River.
Let me say to his friends that everything was done for him that skillful surgeons could do to save him. He died in defense of the Constitution and the laws of his country; therefore, weep not for him.
You will excuse the length of this communication, as I could not well abridge more than I have done.
Name: Stephen G Jobe
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 6
Birth Year: abt 1844
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1850: Washington, Warren, Ohio, USA
Attended School: Yes
Line Number: 28
Dwelling Number: 34
Family Number: 34
Household Members Age
Thomas Jobe 39
Catharine Jobe 21
1860 United States Federal Census
Name: Stephen G Jobe
Age: 16
Birth Year: abt 1844
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Place: Ohio
Home in 1860: Adams, Clinton, Ohio
Post Office: Sligo
Dwelling Number: 750
Family Number: 750
Attended School: Y
Household Members Age
Thomas Jobe 49
Catharine Jobe 32
U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: Stephen G. Jobe
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: Ohio
Regiment: 12th Regiment, Ohio Infantry
Company: B
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Private
Alternate Name: Stephen G. Jobe
Film Number: M552 roll 55
Other Records:
Learn More about this Regiment
U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865
Name: Stephen G Jobe
Enlistment Age: 18
Birth Date: abt 1843
Enlistment Date: 22 Apr 1861
Enlistment Rank: Private
Muster Date: 22 Apr 1861
Muster Place: Ohio
Muster Company: B
Muster Regiment: 12th Infantry
Muster Regiment Type: Infantry
Muster Information: Enlisted
Muster Out Date: 20 Jun 1861
Muster Out Information: Mustered Out
Side of War: Union
Survived War?: No
Additional Notes: Last name: Job or Jobe
Additional Notes 2: Muster 2 Date: 20 Jun 1861; Muster 2 Place: Ohio; Muster 2 Unit: 1757; Muster 2
Company: B; Muster 2 Regiment: 12th Infantry; Muster 2 Regiment Type: Infantry; Muster 2 Information:
Enlisted; MusterOut 2 Date: 13 Nov 1861; MusterOut 2 Place: Gauley Bridge, West Virginia; MusterOut 2
Information: died disease;
Title: Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio
"The Wilmington Journal" Wilmington, Ohio
Wednesday, December 20, 1911, Page 6
With The Soldiers Fifty Years Ago
Just a half-century ago Captain A. E. Strickle and others left Wilmington with a number of boxes and barrels of things to wear and to eat, donated and prepared by the good women of Wilmington, for our soldiers in the field, and after distributing them and returning home made a report to the the columns of W. B. Fisher's paper, as follows:
To The Editor:
With your permission, I will occupy a small space in your paper in saying a few things to the citizens of Clinton County, who responded so liberally to the call of the Governor of Ohio by way of contributions to our needy volunteer soldiers.
November 28, I started, in company with Dr. G. F. Birdsall, R. B. Harlan and others, from Cincinnati to visit our troops in West Virginia. Some of these we found on the Kanawha, New and Gauley Rivers.
The twefth Regiment, of which Captain A. W. Doan's company constituted a part, we found at Camp Haddleston, some five or six miles below Gauley Bridge, on the Kanawha River. Here we found a number of our Clinton County boys, but on looking over our list we found several absentees, and on inquiry found they were either in regimental or post hospitals. This regiment constitutes a part of Brigadier General Bentam's Brigade.
At the headquarters of this brigade we opened several boxes of our donation goods. We had the assistance of Captain Doan, D. T. Adams, E. T. Moore, J. H. McMillan and others in the distribution of your gifts. It was a treat, truly, to witness the faces of the boys at the time they were receiving the
contributions sent to them by their kind fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, friends and neighbors.
It was strange to look upon the face of a soldier whose eye never quailed in the presence of the hostile foe, yet on the receipt of your generosity and kindness would fill to the brim; the tears would course down their manly cheeks at the recollection of the "loved ones at home."
That was a part of the reward we received for our toil.
We afterwards took up our line of march, and after six hours of tugging through the mud we arrived with the remainder of our goods at Camp Gauley, and drove up to the headquarters of Lieutenants Lindsay and Chapman.
Here we found our old comrade, Judge Harlan, who had made an advance march a few days before.
We have made a distribution much after the fashion we had previously done at Camp Huddleston, with the difference that it was on a more gigantic scale, as there more of our Clinton County boys in the Eleventh than in the Twelfth Regiment.
What has been said of the emotions and kind feelings of the boys of Captain Doan's company is applicable to those of this regiment, as well as those that I afterwards found scattered through other regiments.
I took some pains to procure the signatures of most of those to whom we delivered your donations, and for the satisfaction of anyone interested I will, with pleasure, give further personal information in regard to any matter connected therewith.
I would remark in this connection that the means of transportation of the sick from the regiments to the post hospitals, is greatly deficient. The want of comforts for the sick on the Governments boats is perfectly awful. Neither proper food, medical attention nor bedding, for either sick or well, being forthcoming.
We next went in search of our boys that were sick. We found them scattered from Cincinnati to the Kanawha. We supplied their wants as far as we had the means, so far as clothing for their persons and bunks were concerned. We made a personal examination of the hospitals at Gallipolis, Charleston, Red House, Gauley and etc. We found some twelve hundred inmates in these establishments.
It is impracticable for us to speak in detail as to the condition and management of these departments of the army; suffice it to say that they generally seemed to be in the hands of competent and careful surgeons.
I found one of our boys at the post hospital, near Gauley Bridge, quite sick. He was quite ill when I first saw him, although his surgeon did not regard him as dangerously ill.
The person I refer to is Samuel G. Jobe, son of Thomas Jobe, who resides near Clarksville. When I first saw him I went to the hospital to give him the blankets sent to him by his friend, Judge Austin, and the other goods sent to him by his father. His disease was typhoid fever. I told him the object of my visit; I gave him, as he lay on his bunk, the articles sent to him and his physician receipted for them. I told him who had sent them to him. The big tears filled his jaundiced eyes as he thanked me and those who had thus remembered him. I told him I hoped he soon would bell. He replied he did not know. I visited him
again three or fours days afterward and found him worse. Some two days afterward I again visited him and found him dead.
I saw him put in his coffin. He was buried on the side of the mountain, about two hundred rods above the Kanawha Falls.
He now sleeps amid the roar of the waters as they madly rush over the mighty falls of the Kanawha River.
Let me say to his friends that everything was done for him that skillful surgeons could do to save him. He died in defense of the Constitution and the laws of his country; therefore, weep not for him.
You will excuse the length of this communication, as I could not well abridge more than I have done.
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