| Died, in Philadelphia, on the 16th ult., Elisha Swift Livermore, of Millbury, Mass., of Co. G, 15th regiment Massachusetts volunteers, aged 43. He was the son of the late Silas and Martha( Putnam) Livermore, and was born at Lisle, Broome County, N. Y., July 1, 1820. He was an early volunteer in the war, acting, as he always declared, from a conviction of duty to God and his country.. He was in the bloody battle of Ball’s Bluff, where, at midnight while in the act of helping a fallen and wounded comrade, he was taken prisoner. Released on parole, and exchanged, he rejoined his regiment, and participated in the last battle of Fredericksburg. He next met the enemy in the desperate fight of Gettysburg, on the 3d of July, where he was mortally wounded, being shot quite through the body with a rife ball, and also struck by two successive fragments of shell. Lying on the field till two in the morning, with his dying captain and orderly near him, he committed himself to god, thinking his last hour had come. from the hospital at Gettysburg he was taken to Baltimore, where having been joined by his wife, he set out with the fond hope of at least reaching home to die. Stopping in Philadelphia, he expired there two days afterwards, on a Sunday morning. As a soldier, brave in action and patient in suffering he was exemplary in the several relations of life. He was a consistent member of the Baptist church, and died in the faith. |