9th Regiment, Infantry
New York Volunteers
Spanish American War
From the September 12, 1898 edition of the New York Journal
One More Camp Martyr is Dead
Another victim of Chickamauga’s horrors and an old and valued employee of the Journal press room. Quartermaster Sergeant Francis J. Stuart, Company M, Ninth New York Volunteers, died yesterday afternoon at his home, No. 327 East Thirty-seventh street, of typhoid fever.
Sergeant Stuart, with several other frail heroes arrived home August 22. Since that time he had been receiving treatment at his home, and although surrounded with all the care that a loving wife could bestow on a sick husband and provided with the best medical skill, his already weak and dilapidated frame could not resist the deadly disease.
He had been a military man nearly half of his life, having been connected with the National Guard for over twenty four years. He belonged to the old Sixty-ninth, and at one time was considered the best Springfield marksmen in the State. He also was associated with the Seventy-first and at the breaking out of the war had been a member of the Ninth Regiment for three years.
A detail of Company M under Sergeant Chadsay will accompany the body to St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church, Thirty-seventh street, where a requiem mass will be said Tuesday morning at 10:30. Military honors will be observed at the interment.
Sergeant Stuart is survived by a wife and five children.
(Special thanks to Arlene W., First Sergeant Ralph C. Chadsey’s Great-Granddaughter for submitting this article)
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