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Retarded fr*im lb* W’t».i Seth Pierce, First Lieutenant of the Eau ClaireJ J * * ; iEagle*, returned Borne on Tue^ay morning laat.^Mr, iPierce,; we' understand, has resigned• *his commission on account of ill health; ire are informed his illness is congestion of the Lungs. He reports the beys all well and in good spirits, hut deep!/ mourning the loss of Captain Perkins. •M . I— Slater, of Ohippewa Falls, also returned on the same boat.1 He was enlisted by Lieutenant Luxton, in the Fifth Regiment,—and has been in the hospital on the Potomae* 'for - the last four months—illness, intermittent i fever. Help was’ - ;Jl i -: •necessary to assist him in walking.While looking yn our disabled soldiers whose heart does not blejd in sympathy for them f They* | 't i • * • I • * *have ofered up their lives, their all—on the altar yf their Country’* Liberty, ' Who'cfin Iook upon ^hejr sufferings without exclaiming—Oh God, Oh 0od ! how long this last!; how .'long before {hi* inhuman strife shall have leased, and Peace pace more smile upon our land.. It is a duty we ywe ty^em, to. God an* to. do' all wepan to alleviate ffapir •dferinfi; I*fcu«not“pa«s j by on the o ther side” wben WowtbpOS more substantial than mere words of sympathy are-needed. Mpnyof our brava volunteer*! have, families deV: (lt; pending upon,them for. support; . A world ofgood ' might lie done ip providing well for*' the destitute of those fighting ourj' country's battles. ^ u lit that givclii5 to the poor; lee del fa to the Lord.”i Ir *Thlt;Idersoi as fimday*them party-given not to been;on Mi smileet *io mbitInvorabup SOIblade dicati the ft Corn; ■ thebe vance liage,aoms. . wrouj brawi.with |year;• *montlcanoe
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Eau Claire Daily Free Press
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Thu, May 29, 1862
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