Troy Times - Veteran - 11th O. V. I.

March 16, 1864

SHIDLER, SIMEON - Died, at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 12th day of December, A. D. 1863, of wounds received at the storming of Missionary Ridge, Mr. Simeon Shidler, aged 34 years, 5 months and 22 days. Mr. Shidler was a resident of this place and had long lived in this County. When the call was made to 500,000 men to defend the land of his birth, the home of his fathers, and the Constitution and laws of freedom, he numbered himself among the patriots and heroes of the nation, and at many well fought battles, established a name of which his bereaved widow and fatherless children may well be proud. In September 1861, he enlisted in the immortal 11th O. V. I., and was with his Regiment at the second battle of Bull Run, at South Mountain, at Antietam, at Chickamauga, and at the storming of Missionary Ridge he sealed his devotion to the cause of his country, in his life's blood. He lingered from the time of receiving his wound till the 12th day of December, when he quietly breathed his last. His body now rests in the National Cemetery at Chattanooga, that city of a nation's departed heroes. Sometime before his death he was conscious that his time was short upon earth, and said that he was ready and willing to die. S.  Troy, March 14, 1864

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