15, 1863, the vessel set out into Charleston Harbor. You can read more about it here, but Charles would become a member of the second crew that piloted the ill-fated Confederate submarine, the Hunley, under the command of Horace Hunley, its inventor. I took this photo during one of my many visits to Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, S.C., not knowing I would see Charles Sprague’s cenotaph in another cemetery. Sprague and ending with the notation “knows something about torpedoes.” That knowledge would seal his fate. Sprague’s service records are divided into two groups, the first listing him as C. Mebane’s battery after Eldridge was removed from command during a reorganization. Eldridge’s Company of Light Artillery on May 20, 1862, at Corinth, Miss., which would become J. They both passed away when Charles was a boy.Īccording to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Charles enlisted in his cousin’s Confederate artillery battery after the Civil War broke out. Alden Sprague and Sophronia Eldridge Sprague. A cenotaph is a memorial stone for a person who is buried elsewhere or whose body was never recovered. I had photographed a cenotaph for Seaman Charles L. While going through my Mount Holly photos, I made another discovery. George Dodge died in 1904 in Cincinnati, Ohio at age 58 due to heart problems. He left behind two sealed letters, one for his father and the other for an unnamed young lady. Edward had recently moved to that city to start a new bookkeeping job. Sadly, Edward was found dead in his hotel room in St. It comes from Revelation 15:2: “And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps.” ![]() Only when I looked at another photo of Osborn’s handsome monument on Find a did I see the epitaph written at the base that said, “He Walks with the Harpers by the Sea of Glass.” At first, I had no idea what that could be from but the words “sea of glass” made me think it was Biblical. Osborn Dodge died of scarlet fever at age 12 in 1881.
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