George W. Logan

LOGAN

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 9/12/2017 at 07:38:30

7 January 1864 - The Tipton Advertiser

Died December 20th, 1873, at Stevenson, Alabama, from an injury received in a railroad accident, on the 16th of Dec., GEORGE W. LOGAN, of Company A. 5th Regiment Iowa Volunteers, in the 38th year of his age.

At the time of his death, Mr. LOGAN was, and for several years had been, an acceptable Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church of Tipton. At the outbreak of the war he felt it to be his duty to give himself to the service of his country. He did not rashly or in a moment of excitement resolve upon this step. But he made it a matter of serious consideration and prayer. And having fully convinced himself that it was his duty to go no one could swerve him from his purpose. He first enlisted under the call for three month men; his company being rejected he then enlisted for three years. He entered the service July, 1861, and at the time of his death had only seven months to serve. With joyful anticipation did he look forward to the expiration of this period, when he should again enjoy the peace and quiet of his own beloved home. But in a moment, and when least expected, all his bright anticipations were blasted. At the battle of Champion Hills he received a severe wound in the thigh which threatened to render him permanently unfit for the service, and for some time he had been seeking a discharge. But his discharge came in a way altogether unlooked for, either by himself or his friends. The time of his warfare on earth having ended his Heavenly Father sent death to his release and took him to Himself. We fondly trust that he has exchanged the soldier's dress for the victor's robes; the trappings of war for the golden harp and crown; the shrill strains of martial music for the sweet enchanting anthem of redeeming love. Possessed in an eminent degree of the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, the place where his excellences were best known, and where he is most deeply lamented, are the family circle, the Sabbath school and the church. His place around the fireside, in the Sabbath school, in the church and at the camp-fire is now vacant; but we firmly believe his spirit fills a seat in the "General Assembly and Church of the first born", that his body "sleeps in Jesus," and at the sound of the last trump.

Will burst the chains with sweet surprise,
And in its Saviour's image rise."

He leaves a wife and child, with many friends to mourn his sudden and untimely death. R.C.