Civil War, Deceased soldiers of Sherburne, NY

 Memory of the Unreturned

Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, June 8, 1872

Those ladies who have been accustomed to paying the loving tribute of flowers to the memory of the brave ones whose lives were laid upon the altar in the great struggle for national existence, were not forgetful on the recent occasion.  How could they forget their own loved ones?  The ashes of those everliving lost is always sacredly remembered, and their memory will be cherished till the life tide shall ebb with those who gave them to the country in her hour of peril, and though Decoration Day was suffered to pass without general observance, the office of strewing their graves with flowers is and will be many times performed without the formality of ceremony.  We are indebted to Isaac Plumb, Esq., for the following list of deceased soldiers, from this town [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], but few of whose remains were returned to their homes for interment:

Edgar Willey, killed at Fair Oaks

Sanford Brooks, Killed at Fair Oaks

George Nearing, died of disease

George W. Miller, died in hospital

Dey Welch, died in hospital

Richard Reynolds, died in hospital

Chanley Isbel, died at Libby prison

Jacob H. Havely, killed at Port Hudson

Erastus Booth, killed near Port Hudson

Surgeon Francis R. Lyman, died of disease at Washington

Nelson Camp, died of disease

Israel Foote, killed at Fredericksburg

Wesley W. Wakely, killed

Seth C. Sisson, killed at Port Hudson

George R. Miller, killed

Lieut. Col. Russell H. Alcott, killed at the second Bull Run battle

Lieut.. Frank Garland, died of wounds received at Gettysburg

John Perkins, died of disease

Capt. Isaac Plumb, jr., died of wounds received at Gainesville, Va. 

The remains of C. Isbel, J.H. Havely, F.R. Lyman, and I. Plumb, Jr. were brought home for interment.

The project of erecting a monument ot the memory of the "unreturned," spoken of by the New Berlin Gazette, a few weeks since, by the holding of sociables or mite societies, during the summer season, we think a veyr feasible one, and trust it may receive the consideratn of the ladies who did so much in providing for the comforts of the brave boys while in service.  An entertainment held for that purpose during the Agricultural Fair this fall would realize handsomely.