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Death ef W. W. GeerA■Chaplain Crews, of the 100th, or [ c Will County Regiment, in his report some three weeks since, stated thatMr. W. W. Oeer, of Co. A., was “absent without leave.1” Since then fulltaant:particulars of his absence have bee areceived, White on the mi arch... to-*•m m W w .? ' J? 4. “■ %. 4wards Nashville, he was taken sick, and left at a private house in Lebanon. He was soon after removed to Plospital No. 3, in Lebanon, and died three weeks after of typhoid fever. It is a burning shame that auch a re-wort should ever have been circulatedBhand published.. A h i gh e r po wer Ilia n a Regimental Chaplain, or Colonel, gave him “leave of absence,” not only from hie company and regiment, but from a world of wars and a troublednbbIilife. Mr. Geer was some 33 years of age, and leaves a wife and two children. now residents of Danielsonville.Conn.. where▼eyed, for interment He was a man of Irreproachable character, and had been a resident of thie town somevt!nvnnothree years, where he was esteemed ! i b7 all who knew him. We tenderliaour sympathies to his bereaved wife *and family.
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Wilmington Independent
Wilmington, Illinois, US
Wed, Jan 07, 1863
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