LH

Lester M. Holycross

Sergeant Army Civil War

Army
Army
Sergeant
Sergeant
Branch of Service
Army
Rank
Sergeant
Unit
32nd OVI, Co. B, F
Conflict / Era
Civil War
Years of Service
09/18/1861 – 08/02/1864
Date of Death
08/02/1864
Hometown
UNKNOWN, OH
Burial Location
Darby Twp: Mitchell (Robinson)
Monument Paver
No
Township (entering service)
UNKNOWN
Township (current / at death)
UNKNOWN
School
UNKNOWN
Status
Killed in Action
When
08/02/1864
Where
4th Division Hospital, Camp Stevenson, AL
Record Authenticated
Yes

Biography

School: UNKNOWN. He and twenty others were detailed to bury the dead after the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain (see additional notes for excerpt from Beers) Beers: "The task proved too much for him. After the hardships of the campaign and the fatigue of the hard fought battle, he commenced bleeding from the lungs the same night and died on the 2nd of August."

Source: Beers, Record 473; Civil War Soldiers System; American Civil War Research Database; Marysville Tribune Abstracts, 1850-1876, p. 17 | Ancestry - Civil War Soldiers Profiles, Graves Registration Card, Registers of Death of Volunteers, Nat'l Cemetery Interment Control Forms