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Julius H. Keyes
c.1859
JULIUS KEYES, WATERTOWN
REPUBLICAN PUBLISHER
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1863
10 23 WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF CHAMPION’S HILL
Corp. Julius H. Keyes of Co. B, 29th Regiment, reached
this city last Tuesday. He was severely
wounded in the battle of Champion’s Hill and for some weeks has been confined
in the hospital at St. Louis. WD
1865
06 01 A SKILLFUL OPERATION
On
Tuesday last Dr. Brainard of Chicago, probably the most eminent surgeon in the
west, performed a very skillful and successful operation on Julius H. Keyes of
this city – extracting a minie ball from his head where he has carried it with
much pain and suffering ever since the memorable battle of Champion Hills, two
years ago the 16th of May. The ball
entered the head near the right temple, destroyed the optical nerve in its
course, pressed the eye outward, and embedded itself well up under the
nose. It was removed by first being
pressed into one of the nostrils and then drawn out. It was found to be an ounce ball, badly flattened
out. At the time of receiving the wound
he was a corporal in the 29th and belonged to the color guard – a post of honor
and danger. The officers and men of the
regiment who passed through that sanguinary battle with him will be rejoiced to
learn of a prospect of the speedy recovery of their former comrade who fell, as
all supposed, mortally wounded in their decimated ranks, where the fire was the
hottest and raged the fiercest. On the
eve of his departure for Chicago a number of liberal-hearted citizens,
remembering with pride his gallantry in the field and the indomitable courage
with which he has borne his sufferings, presented him with a purse of $50 as a
slight testimonial of their appreciation of his services in fighting the
battles of his country. – Watertown
Republican.
Cross
References:
Keyes, J H 12/2/1869,
bought int in Republican,
Watertown Democrat
Keyes, Julius H 1908,
Willis Keyes obit, bro
Keyes, Julius H 6/4/1863,
misc, Watertown
Democrat
Churchill, Martha - Keyes, Julius H: 10/23/1873, marriage, Watertown Democrat
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