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Ira J. Fox

Birth
Ohio, USA
Death
5 Jul 1863 (aged 26–27)
Burial
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Ira J. Fox married Lucia Aurora Patrick on 1 April 1860 in Union Co, Ohio. They were on the 1860 census in Pike, Madison, Ohio living with brother, William R. Fox.

Ira J. Fox was in the Civil War, Co. K, 95th Regiment, Ohio Infantry. He was mustered in as a private on 12 August, 1862. Then was appointed to Corporal on 8 April, 1863. He died on 5 July, 1863 from disease on board the floating hospital steamer, Crescent City.

The Crescent City was 688 ton steamer and was constructed in Cincinnati in 1854; the veteran side-wheeled served extensively on the New Orleans-St.Louis route prior to the war and as a troop transport for the USQMD(United States Quarter Master Department). Steamers were converted as floating hospitals and served as part of the Western Sanitary Commission hospital fleet.
Ira J. Fox married Lucia Aurora Patrick on 1 April 1860 in Union Co, Ohio. They were on the 1860 census in Pike, Madison, Ohio living with brother, William R. Fox.

Ira J. Fox was in the Civil War, Co. K, 95th Regiment, Ohio Infantry. He was mustered in as a private on 12 August, 1862. Then was appointed to Corporal on 8 April, 1863. He died on 5 July, 1863 from disease on board the floating hospital steamer, Crescent City.

The Crescent City was 688 ton steamer and was constructed in Cincinnati in 1854; the veteran side-wheeled served extensively on the New Orleans-St.Louis route prior to the war and as a troop transport for the USQMD(United States Quarter Master Department). Steamers were converted as floating hospitals and served as part of the Western Sanitary Commission hospital fleet.


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