This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Griswold Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CGC.2ACI/445 Message Board Post: >From the Omro Union newspaper - Omro, WI - September 3, 1865 DIED- At Cairo, Ill; of Congestive Chills and Fever, JOHN GRISWOLD, aged 33 years, 1 month and 1 day. John Griswold was a citizen of this town. He enlisted the 20th of Aug. 1864, in the Navy, and was designed for the Mississippi Squadron. From the receiving ship he was transferred to the Black Hawk and from thence to the Iron clad Osage, at that time laying at Helena. From the Mississippi Squadron he was transferred to the Gulf Blockading Squadron and took part in the fight at Mobile, March 29th; where he was blown up, without injury. On the 12th of April he was again blown up, badly wounded and put into the hospital at Mobile. As soon as he was able he was taken to New Orleans where he served the remaining time of his enlistment, started home but sickened and died entirely alone - the people with whom he stopped being from home at Cairo, Ill. His friends, learning he was sick, sent for him, but being dead and buried before the messenger arrived at Cairo; he did not bring the body home. Unwilling that his remains should rest so far from home, his wife started, alone, for them. She arrive at Cairo in the night, spent the next day in learning where her husband’s remains were lain and in trying, in vain, to secure the assistance of white people; hired some negroes to assist her, and after wading mud about ten miles, and overcoming other obstacles, succeeded in exhuming the body and placing it in a metalic coffin, ready to start home the next morning. The funeral ceremonies were performed Tuesday, Nov. 1st.