Sergt. Jerritt S. Hambleton, a farmer from Upper Oxford; enlisted at age 22 on Sept. 11, 1861, for 3 yrs.; in Company C, 97th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was appointed 1st corporal on Sept. 18, 1861 and promoted to 5th sergt. on Nov. 5, 1861. He died of malarial fever at Hilton Head, S C.. on .Jan. 31, 1862.
The following is tribute to his excellence of character and promise taken from a letter written by Adj. H.W. Carruthers to a friend in West Chester dated Warsaw Sound, Ga. Feb 3, 1862
Sgt. Hambleton, Company C, 97th Pennsylvania Infantry, died in the Hilton Head army hospital of Typhoid fever on Jan. 31, 1862. His death was universally lamented by the officers and men of his company and by most in the Regiment. Being a young man of great worth and amiability, with bright talents and promise, whose excellent and efficient qualities had already indicated his selection for promotion to the first vacancy for a commision in his company. Through the exertions of his friend, faithful companion and nurse, Corp. B. Lundy Kent, his body was sent home for interment at Longwood Cem, Where on the moring of Feb.16, 1862, his family and friends gathered and sadly laid his remains in that quiet resting place. Many touching tributes were paid to his worth, and all felt that his work, though scarcely begun, was yet complete in its earnest devotion to the aim of a most noble purpose.
From the "History of the Ninety-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry", By Isaiah Price.
The following is tribute to his excellence of character and promise taken from a letter written by Adj. H.W. Carruthers to a friend in West Chester dated Warsaw Sound, Ga. Feb 3, 1862
Sgt. Hambleton, Company C, 97th Pennsylvania Infantry, died in the Hilton Head army hospital of Typhoid fever on Jan. 31, 1862. His death was universally lamented by the officers and men of his company and by most in the Regiment. Being a young man of great worth and amiability, with bright talents and promise, whose excellent and efficient qualities had already indicated his selection for promotion to the first vacancy for a commision in his company. Through the exertions of his friend, faithful companion and nurse, Corp. B. Lundy Kent, his body was sent home for interment at Longwood Cem, Where on the moring of Feb.16, 1862, his family and friends gathered and sadly laid his remains in that quiet resting place. Many touching tributes were paid to his worth, and all felt that his work, though scarcely begun, was yet complete in its earnest devotion to the aim of a most noble purpose.
From the "History of the Ninety-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry", By Isaiah Price.
Sergt. Jerritt S. Hambleton, a farmer from Upper Oxford; enlisted at age 22 on Sept. 11, 1861, for 3 yrs.; in Company C, 97th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was appointed 1st corporal on Sept. 18, 1861 and promoted to 5th sergt. on Nov. 5, 1861. He died of malarial fever at Hilton Head, S C.. on .Jan. 31, 1862.
The following is tribute to his excellence of character and promise taken from a letter written by Adj. H.W. Carruthers to a friend in West Chester dated Warsaw Sound, Ga. Feb 3, 1862
Sgt. Hambleton, Company C, 97th Pennsylvania Infantry, died in the Hilton Head army hospital of Typhoid fever on Jan. 31, 1862. His death was universally lamented by the officers and men of his company and by most in the Regiment. Being a young man of great worth and amiability, with bright talents and promise, whose excellent and efficient qualities had already indicated his selection for promotion to the first vacancy for a commision in his company. Through the exertions of his friend, faithful companion and nurse, Corp. B. Lundy Kent, his body was sent home for interment at Longwood Cem, Where on the moring of Feb.16, 1862, his family and friends gathered and sadly laid his remains in that quiet resting place. Many touching tributes were paid to his worth, and all felt that his work, though scarcely begun, was yet complete in its earnest devotion to the aim of a most noble purpose.
From the "History of the Ninety-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry", By Isaiah Price.
The following is tribute to his excellence of character and promise taken from a letter written by Adj. H.W. Carruthers to a friend in West Chester dated Warsaw Sound, Ga. Feb 3, 1862
Sgt. Hambleton, Company C, 97th Pennsylvania Infantry, died in the Hilton Head army hospital of Typhoid fever on Jan. 31, 1862. His death was universally lamented by the officers and men of his company and by most in the Regiment. Being a young man of great worth and amiability, with bright talents and promise, whose excellent and efficient qualities had already indicated his selection for promotion to the first vacancy for a commision in his company. Through the exertions of his friend, faithful companion and nurse, Corp. B. Lundy Kent, his body was sent home for interment at Longwood Cem, Where on the moring of Feb.16, 1862, his family and friends gathered and sadly laid his remains in that quiet resting place. Many touching tributes were paid to his worth, and all felt that his work, though scarcely begun, was yet complete in its earnest devotion to the aim of a most noble purpose.
From the "History of the Ninety-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry", By Isaiah Price.
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