CSA
Company K, Palmetto Sharpshooters
Son of Henry Hill and Martha Theodore Lowry Durant.
TO THE MEMORY OF
Privates JOHN and A. S. DURANT, first and third son
of the late Rev. H. H. and Mrs. M. T. DURANT.
Glorious is the death of the Christian soldier
Ever to be admired and emulated.
JOHN DURANT, Company K, Palmetto Sharpshooters, died at the Division Hospital, near Darbytown Road, Va., on the 8th October, 1864, from a wound in the abdomen, which he received in a charge of the enemy at __ farm the day before.
ANDREW SAULS DURANT, Company K, Palmetto Sharpshooters, died at Jackson Hospital, Richmond, Va., on the 2d July, 1864, in the 19th year of his age.
These young men having abandoned the hope of a collegiate education, and the pleasant association of relatives and friends, rushed, at the call of their country, to the front, fully determined, by the will of God, to devote their entire energies to the establishment of a glorious peace, or find a __ grave.
The manner _____ conducted themselves is forcibly set for _____ extracts from a letter to their bereaved ____ by the worthy captain of the corps to which they belonged. None can better testify to their __ __ and soldierly bearing and fortitude.
"Dear Madam-You will have heard, ere this reaches you, of the death of your noble son John, who fell mortally wounded near the Darbytown Road, in the bloody fight of last Thursday, 7th October.
Fully conscious during the one day of pain, and knowing that his end was near at hand, he praised God all the while, and often expressed his resignation to our Divine Maker's will and seemed most to desire life on your account, and that of his loved sisters, of whom with yourself, he often spoke most tenderly. Mr. McDowell, our most worthy and excellent Chaplain, told that a very short time before he died, he asked him if he felt that he could trust in his Saviour to deliver and save him, whereupon John's face seemed to be lit up with joy and glory. __ he exclaimed, 'O, yes, I can trust Jesus, I can __ Jesus!' And Mr. McDowell further tells me that he does not doubt that he is now in heaven.
"As to John's bearing in camp, on the march, and in battle for the past three years and six months, both as a comrade and a soldier, I am sure the officer or soldier has __ who has ever found anything in him that deserves censure; while every day of his long service has furnished through him examples worthy of imitation and admiration. He was one you'd ever depend on to do well the work of his country. In the doing of which he has at last yielded cheerfully his patriotic life, and left a company and friends who will ever miss and mourn him. I shall ever mourn him as a soldier and friend.
"I hope to have him removed to the Holy Wood Cemetery, and placed by the side of his brother, A. S. Durant, who, I can testify, was one of the most devoted soldiers I ever saw, and who followed us on large marches, a mere skeleton, but a master spirit, which was ever at its post when danger was to be faced or the foes of his country to be met. At last this frail body could not longer execute the desire of your brave and good boy. He suffered for more than two months. I often tried to persuade him to go to the hospital, and once or twice made him go the field hospital; but an hour or two would find him back, in fact he seemed determined to serve while life was left him, and very nearly did he do it. I assure you Madam, I have great cause to remember your sons with thankfulness and admiration, and that with you, I do, and will long mourn their loss to us."
Such a history needs no embellishment, such characters deserve the esteem and admiration of every truly patriotic and Christian heart. The sympathy and condolences of every Southerner should be extended to their bereaved relatives, who have been thrice visited by the fell destroyer of all temporal hopes and happiness.
To be bereft of a husband and father and two sons and brothers, all by the pestilence of war, would crush the spirits of any family but for Christian hope and consolation. This will assuage all temporal sorrows, and lead to the realization of a glorious spiritual meeting in a heavenly sphere. - A. M. L.
Published in The Charleston Mercury, February 3, 1865
Company K, Palmetto Sharpshooters
Son of Henry Hill and Martha Theodore Lowry Durant.
TO THE MEMORY OF
Privates JOHN and A. S. DURANT, first and third son
of the late Rev. H. H. and Mrs. M. T. DURANT.
Glorious is the death of the Christian soldier
Ever to be admired and emulated.
JOHN DURANT, Company K, Palmetto Sharpshooters, died at the Division Hospital, near Darbytown Road, Va., on the 8th October, 1864, from a wound in the abdomen, which he received in a charge of the enemy at __ farm the day before.
ANDREW SAULS DURANT, Company K, Palmetto Sharpshooters, died at Jackson Hospital, Richmond, Va., on the 2d July, 1864, in the 19th year of his age.
These young men having abandoned the hope of a collegiate education, and the pleasant association of relatives and friends, rushed, at the call of their country, to the front, fully determined, by the will of God, to devote their entire energies to the establishment of a glorious peace, or find a __ grave.
The manner _____ conducted themselves is forcibly set for _____ extracts from a letter to their bereaved ____ by the worthy captain of the corps to which they belonged. None can better testify to their __ __ and soldierly bearing and fortitude.
"Dear Madam-You will have heard, ere this reaches you, of the death of your noble son John, who fell mortally wounded near the Darbytown Road, in the bloody fight of last Thursday, 7th October.
Fully conscious during the one day of pain, and knowing that his end was near at hand, he praised God all the while, and often expressed his resignation to our Divine Maker's will and seemed most to desire life on your account, and that of his loved sisters, of whom with yourself, he often spoke most tenderly. Mr. McDowell, our most worthy and excellent Chaplain, told that a very short time before he died, he asked him if he felt that he could trust in his Saviour to deliver and save him, whereupon John's face seemed to be lit up with joy and glory. __ he exclaimed, 'O, yes, I can trust Jesus, I can __ Jesus!' And Mr. McDowell further tells me that he does not doubt that he is now in heaven.
"As to John's bearing in camp, on the march, and in battle for the past three years and six months, both as a comrade and a soldier, I am sure the officer or soldier has __ who has ever found anything in him that deserves censure; while every day of his long service has furnished through him examples worthy of imitation and admiration. He was one you'd ever depend on to do well the work of his country. In the doing of which he has at last yielded cheerfully his patriotic life, and left a company and friends who will ever miss and mourn him. I shall ever mourn him as a soldier and friend.
"I hope to have him removed to the Holy Wood Cemetery, and placed by the side of his brother, A. S. Durant, who, I can testify, was one of the most devoted soldiers I ever saw, and who followed us on large marches, a mere skeleton, but a master spirit, which was ever at its post when danger was to be faced or the foes of his country to be met. At last this frail body could not longer execute the desire of your brave and good boy. He suffered for more than two months. I often tried to persuade him to go to the hospital, and once or twice made him go the field hospital; but an hour or two would find him back, in fact he seemed determined to serve while life was left him, and very nearly did he do it. I assure you Madam, I have great cause to remember your sons with thankfulness and admiration, and that with you, I do, and will long mourn their loss to us."
Such a history needs no embellishment, such characters deserve the esteem and admiration of every truly patriotic and Christian heart. The sympathy and condolences of every Southerner should be extended to their bereaved relatives, who have been thrice visited by the fell destroyer of all temporal hopes and happiness.
To be bereft of a husband and father and two sons and brothers, all by the pestilence of war, would crush the spirits of any family but for Christian hope and consolation. This will assuage all temporal sorrows, and lead to the realization of a glorious spiritual meeting in a heavenly sphere. - A. M. L.
Published in The Charleston Mercury, February 3, 1865
CSA
Company K, Palmetto Sharpshooters
Son of Henry Hill and Martha Theodore Lowry Durant.
TO THE MEMORY OF
Privates JOHN and A. S. DURANT, first and third son
of the late Rev. H. H. and Mrs. M. T. DURANT.
Glorious is the death of the Christian soldier
Ever to be admired and emulated.
JOHN DURANT, Company K, Palmetto Sharpshooters, died at the Division Hospital, near Darbytown Road, Va., on the 8th October, 1864, from a wound in the abdomen, which he received in a charge of the enemy at __ farm the day before.
ANDREW SAULS DURANT, Company K, Palmetto Sharpshooters, died at Jackson Hospital, Richmond, Va., on the 2d July, 1864, in the 19th year of his age.
These young men having abandoned the hope of a collegiate education, and the pleasant association of relatives and friends, rushed, at the call of their country, to the front, fully determined, by the will of God, to devote their entire energies to the establishment of a glorious peace, or find a __ grave.
The manner _____ conducted themselves is forcibly set for _____ extracts from a letter to their bereaved ____ by the worthy captain of the corps to which they belonged. None can better testify to their __ __ and soldierly bearing and fortitude.
"Dear Madam-You will have heard, ere this reaches you, of the death of your noble son John, who fell mortally wounded near the Darbytown Road, in the bloody fight of last Thursday, 7th October.
Fully conscious during the one day of pain, and knowing that his end was near at hand, he praised God all the while, and often expressed his resignation to our Divine Maker's will and seemed most to desire life on your account, and that of his loved sisters, of whom with yourself, he often spoke most tenderly. Mr. McDowell, our most worthy and excellent Chaplain, told that a very short time before he died, he asked him if he felt that he could trust in his Saviour to deliver and save him, whereupon John's face seemed to be lit up with joy and glory. __ he exclaimed, 'O, yes, I can trust Jesus, I can __ Jesus!' And Mr. McDowell further tells me that he does not doubt that he is now in heaven.
"As to John's bearing in camp, on the march, and in battle for the past three years and six months, both as a comrade and a soldier, I am sure the officer or soldier has __ who has ever found anything in him that deserves censure; while every day of his long service has furnished through him examples worthy of imitation and admiration. He was one you'd ever depend on to do well the work of his country. In the doing of which he has at last yielded cheerfully his patriotic life, and left a company and friends who will ever miss and mourn him. I shall ever mourn him as a soldier and friend.
"I hope to have him removed to the Holy Wood Cemetery, and placed by the side of his brother, A. S. Durant, who, I can testify, was one of the most devoted soldiers I ever saw, and who followed us on large marches, a mere skeleton, but a master spirit, which was ever at its post when danger was to be faced or the foes of his country to be met. At last this frail body could not longer execute the desire of your brave and good boy. He suffered for more than two months. I often tried to persuade him to go to the hospital, and once or twice made him go the field hospital; but an hour or two would find him back, in fact he seemed determined to serve while life was left him, and very nearly did he do it. I assure you Madam, I have great cause to remember your sons with thankfulness and admiration, and that with you, I do, and will long mourn their loss to us."
Such a history needs no embellishment, such characters deserve the esteem and admiration of every truly patriotic and Christian heart. The sympathy and condolences of every Southerner should be extended to their bereaved relatives, who have been thrice visited by the fell destroyer of all temporal hopes and happiness.
To be bereft of a husband and father and two sons and brothers, all by the pestilence of war, would crush the spirits of any family but for Christian hope and consolation. This will assuage all temporal sorrows, and lead to the realization of a glorious spiritual meeting in a heavenly sphere. - A. M. L.
Published in The Charleston Mercury, February 3, 1865
Company K, Palmetto Sharpshooters
Son of Henry Hill and Martha Theodore Lowry Durant.
TO THE MEMORY OF
Privates JOHN and A. S. DURANT, first and third son
of the late Rev. H. H. and Mrs. M. T. DURANT.
Glorious is the death of the Christian soldier
Ever to be admired and emulated.
JOHN DURANT, Company K, Palmetto Sharpshooters, died at the Division Hospital, near Darbytown Road, Va., on the 8th October, 1864, from a wound in the abdomen, which he received in a charge of the enemy at __ farm the day before.
ANDREW SAULS DURANT, Company K, Palmetto Sharpshooters, died at Jackson Hospital, Richmond, Va., on the 2d July, 1864, in the 19th year of his age.
These young men having abandoned the hope of a collegiate education, and the pleasant association of relatives and friends, rushed, at the call of their country, to the front, fully determined, by the will of God, to devote their entire energies to the establishment of a glorious peace, or find a __ grave.
The manner _____ conducted themselves is forcibly set for _____ extracts from a letter to their bereaved ____ by the worthy captain of the corps to which they belonged. None can better testify to their __ __ and soldierly bearing and fortitude.
"Dear Madam-You will have heard, ere this reaches you, of the death of your noble son John, who fell mortally wounded near the Darbytown Road, in the bloody fight of last Thursday, 7th October.
Fully conscious during the one day of pain, and knowing that his end was near at hand, he praised God all the while, and often expressed his resignation to our Divine Maker's will and seemed most to desire life on your account, and that of his loved sisters, of whom with yourself, he often spoke most tenderly. Mr. McDowell, our most worthy and excellent Chaplain, told that a very short time before he died, he asked him if he felt that he could trust in his Saviour to deliver and save him, whereupon John's face seemed to be lit up with joy and glory. __ he exclaimed, 'O, yes, I can trust Jesus, I can __ Jesus!' And Mr. McDowell further tells me that he does not doubt that he is now in heaven.
"As to John's bearing in camp, on the march, and in battle for the past three years and six months, both as a comrade and a soldier, I am sure the officer or soldier has __ who has ever found anything in him that deserves censure; while every day of his long service has furnished through him examples worthy of imitation and admiration. He was one you'd ever depend on to do well the work of his country. In the doing of which he has at last yielded cheerfully his patriotic life, and left a company and friends who will ever miss and mourn him. I shall ever mourn him as a soldier and friend.
"I hope to have him removed to the Holy Wood Cemetery, and placed by the side of his brother, A. S. Durant, who, I can testify, was one of the most devoted soldiers I ever saw, and who followed us on large marches, a mere skeleton, but a master spirit, which was ever at its post when danger was to be faced or the foes of his country to be met. At last this frail body could not longer execute the desire of your brave and good boy. He suffered for more than two months. I often tried to persuade him to go to the hospital, and once or twice made him go the field hospital; but an hour or two would find him back, in fact he seemed determined to serve while life was left him, and very nearly did he do it. I assure you Madam, I have great cause to remember your sons with thankfulness and admiration, and that with you, I do, and will long mourn their loss to us."
Such a history needs no embellishment, such characters deserve the esteem and admiration of every truly patriotic and Christian heart. The sympathy and condolences of every Southerner should be extended to their bereaved relatives, who have been thrice visited by the fell destroyer of all temporal hopes and happiness.
To be bereft of a husband and father and two sons and brothers, all by the pestilence of war, would crush the spirits of any family but for Christian hope and consolation. This will assuage all temporal sorrows, and lead to the realization of a glorious spiritual meeting in a heavenly sphere. - A. M. L.
Published in The Charleston Mercury, February 3, 1865
Family Members
Siblings
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Elmira Gause DuRant
1838–1921
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Rev Olin Lowry "Judge" DuRant
1843–1912
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Andrew Sauls DuRant
1845–1864
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Mary DuRant Skinner
1847–1915
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Adella Gertrude "Addie" DuRant
1849–1915
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Henry Hill Durant Jr
1851–1923
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Benjamin Gause Durant
1854–1855
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William Augustus DuRant
1856–1915
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Maggie E. Durant
1858–1885
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Alef DuRant Williams
1860–1944
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