9th Regiment, Infantry
New York Volunteers
Spanish American War
From the August 24, 1898 edition of the New York Times
First Sergeant Simpson Dead
A Ninth Regiment Officer Succumbs to Fever a Camp Thomas
Col. S. E. Japha of the One Hundred and Ninth Regiment had received a dispatch announcing the death, at Camp Thomas, of First Sergt. Harry Simpson of Company B, Ninth Regiment. The dead man was one of the most popular men in the regiment. He was so determined to go to the front that when the surgeon at Peekskill rejected him, he had Capt. Tompkins hold his place open for him, and went to a hospital in this city, where he submitted to an operation, to have removed a growth that had caused his rejection. He then joined the regiment at Camp Thomas, where he was joyfully received by his comrades, who at first had threatened not to enlist unless he was to go with them. Typhoid fever was the cause of death. The remains will be brought home.
From the August 28, 1898 edition of the New York Times
The remains of First Sergt. Harry Simpson of Company B, Ninth New York Volunteers, who died a few days since at Camp Thomas, will be buried in the National Cemetery at Chattanooga, instead of being brought back North for interment, a was expected.
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