| Another Brave Soldier Gone
Lysander Martin, son of Timothy Martin of South Sutton, of whom mention was recently made by the correspondent of the New York Herald at Fredericksburg as having distinguished himself among the sharpshooters of the vicinity, and as having been severely wounded, died at Hammond General Hospital, at Point Lookout, Md., on the 19th of June, in the twenty-seventh year of his age. The wound which occasioned his death was inflicted ten days previous by a Minne ball which penetrated his cheek and neck. During a portion of this time he suffered much, yet exhibited great patience and fortitude. He was a young man of much promise, and had the esteem of all who knew him. He was an only son of aged parents and their main earthly reliance. He had much to induce him to remain at home, but felt that his country had claims upon him that he could not disregard. He enlisted in August 1862 in a company of the Andrew Sharpshooters, and soon became a very efficient mechanic, he constructed himself a telescopic rifle which he was using so efficiently against the enemy at the time he received his fatal wound. While his friends deeply mourn his loss, they not only have the satisfaction of knowing that he endeavored to serve his country according to his best ability, but that after he was wounded, everything was done that surgical skill and kind nursing could do to save his life. The surgeon who attended him writes “I would have been exceedingly happy to have been the means of saving the life of so brave a patriot as he had shown himself to be. But it was the will of God.” One who was with him in his last hours states that he received all the kindness and attention that he could have received from home friends, that he was treated as a brother rather than a stranger. |