Union County Veterans Remembrance Committee

Permanent Veteran Record

Lester M. Holycross

BranchArmy
RankSergeant
Conflict / EraCivil War
Years of Service09/18/1861 – 08/02/1864
Date of Death08/02/1864
HometownUNKNOWN, OH
Burial LocationDarby Twp: Mitchell (Robinson)
Monument PaverNo
SourceBeers, 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

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."

Printed from the UCVRC Veterans Database · Courthouse Veterans Monument