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From: Tina Hursh <>
Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Parsons, Chas. - Lorraine Co
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:45:33 -0500

>From the The Ohio Biographies Project
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html
a part of The U.S. Biographies Project
http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html

transcribed by Deb
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"Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888)

Lorain County
Page 135


CHAS. CARROLL PARSONS was born in Elyria in 1838; graduated at West
Point in 1861. In the war he took command of a battery, "Parsons' battery,"
which was famous in both Union and Confederate armies, and many stories are
told of his courage and daring. In one instance he remained with his guns
until dragged from them by the order of Gen. McCook.
After the war he was chief of artillery in Gen. Hancock's Indian
expedition. Later he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church. He
died September 7, 1878, at Memphis, during the yellow-fever epidemic, from
overwork in his heroic ministrations as nurse and clergyman.

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