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HOME DEPARTMENT.Lieut. Ford Mortally WouudodWe are pnin«ii lo learn that our friend and correspondent, I.iout. K. A. lofd, wat |. mortally wounded nt the late battle ofiMurfreesboro'. Ijfcut. Fotd and Utul.|JTalcott, who vm billed at the balllo of Shiloh, both collated in Co. B, 41st Rcgi- b tnent, at Bur'.on, in the anmmor of 1861 ; both woro elected Bergoente, and after-wnrda promoted. to Lieutenaneict ; for several months after enlisting, both regularly contributed to the columns of the Democrat; and both hate met the tame tad fate. Lieut. Ford became n oorrct-pondent of tho Democrat years ago, when a more boy, and continued suob until he received his mortal wound. While a roomberof tho 41st Regimen*. he also corresponded regularly with the Cleveland Herald. Ilis letters were always spirited and original, and were read with intercat by all, and especially by thone who have friends in the army. Ho was a young man of intelligence, energy nod patriotism of no ordinary kind—one of the many nohlo and gifted who have fallen a sacrifice in tho cause of their country, since this deplorable war began. lie will leave A wife to mourn hit untimelv death.Tho 12fith Regimentiit'n*■0 ars\1 asFa 0 lt;1 « I aoliLao
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The Jeffersonian Democrat
Chardon, Ohio, US
Fri, Jan 09, 1863
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