Mrs.
Sherman, Minnie, Lizzie, and Tom, were with him at the time, and we all, helpless and overwhelmed, saw him die.

Being in the very midst of an important military enterprise, I had hardly time to pause and think of my personal loss.

We procured a metallic casket, and had a military funeral, the battalion of the Thirteenth United States Regulars acting as escort from the Gayoso Hotel to the steamboat Grey Eagle, which conveyed him and my family up to Cairo, whence they proceeded to our home at Lancaster, Ohio, where he was buried.

I here give my letter to Captain C.C.Smith, who commanded the battalion at the time, as exhibiting our intense feelings: GAYOSO HOUSE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE October 4, 1863, Midnight Captain C.C.SMITH, commanding Battalion Thirteenth United States Regulars.
MY DEAR FRIEND: I cannot sleep to-night till I record an expression of the deep feelings of my heart to you, and to the officers and soldiers of the battalion, for their kind behavior to my poor child.

I realize that you all feel for my family the attachment of kindred, and I assure you of full reciprocity.