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In today's paper will be found an obit uary of Lieut Emery Johnson, of War rick county, who was killed instantly near Atlanta, Georgia, while gallantly leading his company in a charge on the enemy on the 22d of July. We are promised by one who was an intimate friend of Col. Wm. Jones, of the 53d Indiana Regiment, an obituary of that distinguished officer, disinterest ed patriot, and excellent citizen. The community will look for it with interest. Col. Jones, though far beyond the prime of life, and having pressing and profita ble business duties, and the carea of a family to bind him to his home, left all soon after the breaking out of the rebel lion and hastened to the field to do all that Ily in his power to crash the rebel lion and sustain the institutions be queathed to him by his fathers. He was in all of Grant's campaigns to the cap ture of Vickaburg, and was with Sher man in his great expedition towards Sel ms. His regiment was then transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, where it has been actively engaged with Sher man in his magnificent operations. Dur ing all this time, the old hero of the 53d did his whole duty, and at length, on the bloody and memorable 22d of July, laid down his life for the country he loved to well. It is stated that he was shot through both thighs, and as he was being carried from the field, that a cannon-ball struck him and took of the top of his head as smoothly as though it had been done by a knife. He went out as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 554 Indiana volunteers, and was sub sequently promoted to the colonelcy to fill the vacancy occasioned by the pro motion of Col. Gresham to a brigadier generalship. He was probably the old est Indians officer in the service, being near sixty years of age. He was the friend of Abraham Lincoln, near Gentry ville, Spencer county, Indiana, when that distinguished individual resided there as a farmer-boy in his younger days. Col. Jones raised a family of patriots. Three of his sons have served in the war for liberty, independence, and national integrity. Lieut James I. Jones was engaged in a mercantile business at Winslow, Pike county, when the rebellion broke out, and went into the 24th Indiana regiment as lieutenant He was with the regi ment and after the capture of Vicks burg, and resigned in August, 1863, in consequence of confirmed disability. Capt. Charles Jones was in business at Elizabeth, Spencer county, when the war commenced, when he dropped his business and raised a company for the 25th Indiana regiment He remained with his command until his health failed and he was compelled on that account to resign, after doing much hard service. William Jones, Jr., was Adjutant of the 25th Indiana regiment. He was wound ed at Shiloh and was discharged from the service in consequence. He after wards raised a company in Spencer county for the Tenth Cavalry, and is now in the service. It will be recollected that he was seriously injured by a rail road accident at Gallatin, Tennessee, when his regimes was on its way to the front. Spencer county loses one of its most valued citizens in Col. William Jones, and the country loses one of the pillars of iu strength. By such men was our first revolution won, and though such are our liberties to be maintained.
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Evansville Daily Journal
Evansville, Indiana, US
Mon, Aug 01, 1864
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