John Loes SR died 1900

LOES, HARR

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 8/9/2020 at 16:20:50

Elkader Register, Thur., 26 July 1900. Local News columns.

John Loes, Sr., who was injured at North McGregor on the 14th, was brought to the county hospital at this place Thursday evening and died about three o'clock Friday morning. Deceased was about _0 (looks like either 60 or 80) years of age and was an old soldier being a member of Co. I, 21st Iowa Volunteers. Several of the members of Boardman Post accompanied the remains to the depot Saturday, when they were sent to Cascade, Ia., for interment. He is survived by a wife and five children, Albert, Charles, Henry, John and Mrs. Al. Harr, all of Dubuque.

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Dubuque Daily Times, July 28, 1900; page 8

A Brave Soldier Was The Late John Loes
The death of John Loes, of Cascade, has already been announced in this paper. He died from the effects of an injury received while working on a bridge in Fayette county. The average citizen of Dubuque is not aware of the fact that John Loes served in the civil war.

Comrade Loes was a member of Co. I, Twenty-first Iowa, and took part in the battles of Port Gibson, Jackson, Black River Bridge, Champion Hills and all the other battles leading up to the great battle of Vicksburg. He was a private soldier and was one of the hundreds of thousands that carried guns instead of swords. All could no be commanders, but all could be good soldiers, and Comrade John Loes was a good soldier.

He responded to his country's call at a time, as the late Senator Gear said, "when the heart of the nation was in trouble," and he left his home in Cascade to fight for the flag that was the emblem of liberty. All are going the same way. As president Garfield said: "The old soldiers are traveling into the interior of life's wilderness," and soon all of them must sink into the "windowless palace of rest."