Advertisement

1SGT Jeremiah Sanders Gage

Advertisement

1SGT Jeremiah Sanders Gage

Birth
Death
3 Jul 1863 (aged 23)
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Pickens, Holmes County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
Plot
Gettysburg Dead Section (Unmarked)
Memorial ID
View Source
Suggest Edits
[Biographical information provided by Brad, DeoPatria, and a page merger.]∼Confederate soldier, Company A, 11th Mississippi Infantry. Gage was mortally wounded by shell fragments during the artillery barrage prior to Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, on July 3, 1863. A surgeon approached Gage and noticed that he had been terribly wounded in the arm. Gage informed that surgeon that he was not hurt there. He then opened his blouse to expose a terrible gut wound. He was carried to the rear and died a short time later.

Gage was wounded near where the Davis Brigade Monument is located across from the North Carolina Memorial on Seminary Ridge.

Gage was first buried on the field. His remains were later removed to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, and buried in the Gettysburg Section.
[Information added via a page merger.]

The following was provided by Travis Holt:
*****
After being mortally wounded, he penned this final letter to his mother:
Gettysburg Penn
July 3rd
My dear mother
This is the last you may ever hear from me. I have time to tell you that I died like a man. Bear my loss as best you can. Remember that I am true to my country and my greatest regret at dying is that she is not free and that you and my sisters are robbed of my worth whatever that may be. I hope this will reach you and you must not regret that my body can not be obtained. It is a mere matter of form anyhow."
This is for my sisters too as I can not write more. Send my dying release to Miss Mary. "you know who."
J.S. Gage
Co. A, 11th Miss.)
Mrs. P.W. Gage
Richland,
Holmes County,Miss.)(This letter is stained with my blood.)
*****
[Biographical information provided by Brad, DeoPatria, and a page merger.]∼Confederate soldier, Company A, 11th Mississippi Infantry. Gage was mortally wounded by shell fragments during the artillery barrage prior to Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, on July 3, 1863. A surgeon approached Gage and noticed that he had been terribly wounded in the arm. Gage informed that surgeon that he was not hurt there. He then opened his blouse to expose a terrible gut wound. He was carried to the rear and died a short time later.

Gage was wounded near where the Davis Brigade Monument is located across from the North Carolina Memorial on Seminary Ridge.

Gage was first buried on the field. His remains were later removed to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, and buried in the Gettysburg Section.
[Information added via a page merger.]

The following was provided by Travis Holt:
*****
After being mortally wounded, he penned this final letter to his mother:
Gettysburg Penn
July 3rd
My dear mother
This is the last you may ever hear from me. I have time to tell you that I died like a man. Bear my loss as best you can. Remember that I am true to my country and my greatest regret at dying is that she is not free and that you and my sisters are robbed of my worth whatever that may be. I hope this will reach you and you must not regret that my body can not be obtained. It is a mere matter of form anyhow."
This is for my sisters too as I can not write more. Send my dying release to Miss Mary. "you know who."
J.S. Gage
Co. A, 11th Miss.)
Mrs. P.W. Gage
Richland,
Holmes County,Miss.)(This letter is stained with my blood.)
*****

Gravesite Details

This is apparently a cenotaph.

Family Members

Parents
Siblings

Advertisement

See more Gage memorials in:

Flower Delivery Sponsor and Remove Ads

Records on Ancestry

Advertisement