A Biography of Union county Soldiers. Veterans' Photographic Souvenir. (G.A.R)

Harvey Cox

Among Union county's best farmers, as well as best citizens, the name of Harvey Cox is enrolled. In war he proved a good and a brave soldier; in peace he has proven a citizen any county could be proud of. With his children he resides on a beautiful farm near Arispe, where he is enjoying the fruits of an industrious and honorable life. Probably his discharge is the best record of his army life, which reads as follows:

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

Know, That Harvey Cox, a private of Captain Rolla, O. Phillip's Company, (D.)85th Regiment of Pennslva]nia, Volunteers who was enrolled on the eighth day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one to serve three years or during the war is hereby discharged from the service of the United States this twenty-second day of November, 1864, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania by reason of expiration of term of service. (No objection to his re-enlisting is known to exist.) Said Harvey Cox was born in Greene County in the state of Pennsylvania, is twenty-four years of age, five feet, nine and one fourth inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, and by occupation when enrolled, a farmer. Given at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania this twenty-second day of November, 1864.

GEORGE WILLIAMS,

Commanding the Regiment.