Thanks so much for posting these. these are an awesome help. Its very sweet
of you. God bless...Ruth
In a message dated 7/19/2010 6:26:35 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
gftl(a)bluemarble.net writes:
Owen (Spencer, Indiana) Democrat, February 4, 1892.
OBITUARY
James M. Goss was born in Owen County, Indiana, December 10, 1840, and died
at his home in Freedom, January 22, 1892. He enlisted in the service of
his
country in 1864 in the 3d Iowa Regt, Inft. Vol. He was captured by the
rebels at the battle of Shiloh and held as a prisoner of war. He was
discharged by reason of disability in 1863 and returned to Gosport, Ind.,
and again enlisted early in the year 1865 in the 149th Ind. Vol. Inft. and
was appointed hospital steward, and in August 1865 he was promoted to
assistant surgeon of his regiment and was mustered out in September 1865.
He was buried in the Hicks Cemetery January 24, 1892, by the comrades of
his
post. G. A. R.
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