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The HETt RNiKti Brave.—The honor- :e l remains of Major Goodspeed and Cap-jtain Briggs have at length arrived from 1 the widely distant fields, on which they j fell, to be laid to root in the quiet family j j burying ground.These patriotic men each entered the J airnv as a private in the three months* !service, at the breaking out of the rebel-fllion; and Captain liriggs entered the three! years’ service as Orderly Sergeant of the 175th Keg’fc O. V. 1. The one was pro-! jinoted to the office of Captain, and feli at j |tho head of his Company in the terrible i battle of Gettysburg; about tin* same time that t ho other as Major of the 4th Ya. V.' I. fell amid the thunders that rocked theMortification around Vicksburg. They’jhaVe given all that brave, warm-hearted men; cun give, to their country. Theyrest from their labors, but their memoryis a sacred trust committed to the keeping of the living.
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Athens Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Thu, Oct 15, 1863
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