Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28
MOVEMENTS Oh THE RAILROADS.
Death OF a tsook city Guard.

Death OF = fECCA Ctty eu2r0s
ALxxANEER L. REID, private il Captain
FosrRR's Company of Rock City Guards,
died on Thursday last at the residence Of
Er. HESNING IN this city. Last spring, full
ism, which caused SO many of the flower Of
the youth OF our city to fy to arms to repel
the Ruthless Northern invader from Southern
soil, Mr.. REID, though in delicate health, al
tached himself to the above named company,
and went with it to Camp Cheatham, where
It vas drilled and prepared for the sterner
duties Of an active campaign. He stood this
preliminary service with heroic fortitude,
and vas amongst the most ardent and cheer
full when ordered to Western Virginia.
There he encountered, uncomplsininglY, the
tardships, fstigues and exposures of the
mountain campaign, under which hundreds
much more robust suceumbed. They were.
however, too severe for him, and his trail
health becoming seriously impaired, he re-
turned home in the vain hope that q change
or climate might restore it. Had il been
possible for able ssedicsl attention, gentle
nursing and tender solicitude to avail him,
orr young friend had not died. Death had
marked him a. victim, and It's merciiess
shaft could not be turned aside.
Previous 70 enlisting in the army Mr..
Red bad been employed for several years in
the counting room of the. Republicans Banner,
and our neighbors but do him justice, when
they say he "was q young man of excellent
qualifications of head and heart, quick aud
accurate in business, and imbued With the
most genial social temper" His funeral took
place yesterday. The day was bright aud
beautiful, a type, We trust, of the life which
he has gone TO enjoy in the abode of the blest.
The decease of Mr.. REID reminds as that
Tennessee has lost another patriotic son,
whose death We Inadvertently omitted to
notice We allude to Capt. JAMES BAsEg,
brother of our accomplished contemporary
of the Banner, who. died in Millboro', in
Western Virginia, on the 18th inst. Captain
BABER was from Sumner county, aud com
manded one of the splendid companies of
which the magnificent regiment OF Col. RoBr
HATToE ia composed We Jaw him as be de-
parted for Virginia, with heart eiate and
ambitious or distinguishing himself in the
struggle for Southern Independence, and we
can scarcely realize that bis manly and Wig.
orous frame has been cut down by disease.
The junior editor of the Banner has laid the
following feeling tribute to his memory which
We cordially endorse:
!. DEATH OF CAPT. JAgEs BABER.-It is our
painful duty this morning TO chronicle the
death of Capt. Jas. Baber, brother to Mr.
George Baber of this paper. He died on the
18th inst, in Millsboro, Western Virginia.
where he had been in service with bis company
since the beginning of the war. He was .
man Of large and many virtues as citizen
and soldier, and his loss will not only be fell
keenly by bis comrades in arms, but will
be received with the most inf igned sorrow
by large circle of friends in Sumner county,
whence his company enlisted in Col. Robert
Hatlon's regiment.
Capt. Baber was born October I'd, 1887. He
was, therefore, in the bloom and beauty of q
young and hopeful manhood Although but
beginning an active successful businets ca
Fesr, he had already established an enyiable
character for capacity, integrity and indus
= try be was universally respected, as well
for bis qualities of nina and habit as for bis
genial, companionable disposition. Few
men were more cordial, kind hearted aud
amiable. He was an idol alike of his family
and bis brother soldiers; and it is not saying
too much to declare that no man could have
been SO lily spared by those who looked up
TO him with so much respect and affection.
We could not, with propriety, allow SO sad
an occasion to pass without an expression of
sincere sympathy with our associate, to whom
the news comes with acute force. We
ningle, too, our deep regrets with those who,
though less afflicted in being farther removed
10 point Of blood. are nevertheless, panied to
the quick at the loss of friend.
The loss Of brother is one of the severess
trials which God, in his wisdom, bequeathes
TO man. The sense Of bewilderment which
must follow, can only be conceived By those
Who have sustained the sffiicting blow. We
feel something more than the interest of
humane pity, because We witness and know
the irrepsrabls vacancy thus created.
Our entire sympathy attends the family
and friends of the deceased; and it grieves as
in being so little able to comfort and cheer
them in this melancholy hour Of suffering.
The CITI HOTEL has been reoponed by j..
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