today damp and rainy
but not so disagreeable as
last week. I was very much
surprised to hear that John Kite was
dead. he went to the
hospital several days
Ambrose & Six others
have gone over to bury
him
John W. Kite died of typhoid fever on August 21, 1861. [Harlan Jessup. The painful news I have to write, p. 451.]
There were two men named Ambrose in Co. H.: Ambrose M. Myers of whom very little is known and Ambrose Booton Shenk who enlisted as a lieutenant June 6, 1861; made captain November 28, 1861, and was killed in action March 23, 1862. at Kernstown. [Spratt. Page County, Virginia, Men in Gray]
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