The Carbondale Independent Osage County Wednesday August 24, 1882 An Old Soldier Gone. Died, in Burlingame, on Monday August 21, Edward Mercer, who has been physically debilitated and often sick ever since the close of the Rebellion. He went out as a private in Company I, of the Eleventh Kansas, and he achieved quite a prominent military record during the war, being promoted by meritious conduct to the postion of second lieutenant and assigned to the Fifteenth Kansas, and received many congratulatory letters from prominent men. He was wounded at Prairie Grove, Mo., and left for dead on the field; but his tenacity for life was strong and his life was saved. He has ever since then suffered from that wound and was but a wreck of the vigorous man. Mr. Mercer was at one time in the employ of Henry W. Longfellow and it was one of his greatest pleasures to talk of this. He was buried on Tuesday with military honors, the posts of the G.A.R. of this place and Burlingame turning out to do him honor, as also the Burlingame Guards adn Burlingame Cornet Band. He leaves a wife and family in very meager circumstances to mourn his loss.