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Birth
Josiah Reed was born in September 8, 1831. His Parents were Samuel C. Reed and Catherine Browning Reed. -
Before the Enlistment
Josiah Reed was like a writer before he was in the war. He wrote many ideas, quotes, principles, and extracting thoughts about his own life. Reed also wrote many writings about medicines and pharmacology recipes and some captions of some of the learnings and education of the medicines. He wrote some information for students to learn from his researches and close to this point he became a teacher. -
Personal
Around between 1861 and 1862, Reed would write about his own personal entries about the army. Before he was in the war he wrote about six poems and published them in June 12, 1861. He decided to publish them before the war because he wanted to be reconized that he was going to obviously be in it. -
Including
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrF_ZRePezESlaves were leaded to the Battle of Stones River in Tennessee. They had bought land on Stones River to live and build homes for their
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Mothers Death
Catherine Reed (Josiah's mother) died in 1862. (from what? Unknown)
Whole family: She had seven children and twenty grandchildren. Reed stopped writing for a while because of the depression of his mothers death. -
How It Became
On August, at the age of 30, Reed got enlisted as private. During the war he was to serve with Company I of the 94th Ohio Infantry. -
The First Wounded
On December, Reed was wounded during the Battle of Stones River in Tennessee. He was wounded in his arm, he ws sent to a hospital in Nashville and there he learned the ways of opperations and pursued a course to study medical procedures. Still in being wounded and in motion of recovery, he still had to do his duties. -
His Position in the War
In the beginning of the war, Reed was in the position of working in the Hospital and had some help with some other doctors name Dr. Geen and Dr. Jennings. Reed has been in this position and was to help all of those who were wounded. When he has been practicing for his position of hospitality, he was beginning to think that the procedure was very easy and steady. In all of this preparing for what could happen his roll, he was learning a lot in his position, so he began to like it very much. -
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Being Informed
Around the time of March and in the beginning of April, Reed and the rest of the soliders never recieved any information from the east. They have been waiting for results from the Charleston expedition, the Mississippi expedition before they would have to do any movement of fighting. -
So Far
In the last three weeks he had been preparing for duties the he has recieved. He has been placed in this position because a druggist was taken away by his own Colonel, so he was now it is his job to cary on this type of job. -
The First Letter
On April, Reed wrote and sent the first letter to his friend Lizzie. He informed her about what his role was, what was his part in helping the war, who he helped, how he practiced, his duties around the camp and such. He also told her about the opportunities that he can have in the battle and what certain things that are going to be going on from the beginning. -
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The Letters
During these times Reed wrote letters to his future wife Elizabeth Woodard in Nashville, but called her Lizzie. He kept in touch with her and informed her with details of what has gone on during the battle and some of his duties he had to do. -
The Second
(second letter to Lizzie) Josiah Reed was in the middle of some rumor that were being said about the rebs. that they were going to make their way to win the fight. They have already recieved many wounded and in need of the soliders to be strong during the fight.
All of the doctors and nurses needed more help with the more soliders that kept getting wounded during the battle. They all needed more support. -
The Third
Reed sent a letter to Lizzie telling her about all the people that have died so far that couldn't been cured or bodies that weren't able to be found. He also tells her of what he himself has lost in the battle, like all his friends, his mother and also his sister. Josiah feels depressed by what he sees of many people dying one after another and he worries about all those families at home wondering about their loved one's in the battlefield, but not knowing how most of them are dead. -
The Fourth
In this fourth letter he sends to her, he tells her how much he trusts her with his secrets and such. He mainly expresses himself to her about how he feels about what is going on and how important she means to him.
Reed starts then describing to her of how the situation in the camp of the soliders is and that it wont be possible for everyone to go back home one time. All the soliders on the ground with the bloodiest bodies he has ever seen and informed her that they are having a big situation. -
The Fifth
Reed had sent another letter to Lizzie, (talking about chirstmas) -
The Sixth
Now that it is almost towards the end, Reed is describing how everything is being settled and also of all the new life is going to come in. Everything during the war is coming to an end and all soliders who survived are now going to be going home. -
The Ending
In 1865, Nasheville, Reed was out of service from battle. Once he got back from battle to home, Reed went to the University of Nashville and went to Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York to study medicine. -
The Seventh
Reed on this last letter, is telling all the things that the soliders and other workers went through in the war, are now most of them serving in something new. He is retelling the whole war, like the situations, the wounded and such, and now they are all back to their homes and families and starting new and clean.
"They salute to those that didnt make it." -
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After War, Beginning New
In 1866, Reed graduated from college, returned to Ohio to become a Doctor and practice medicine. Reed then married Elizabeth Woodard (his friend Lizzie) and had four children. -
Mail
In 1868, the paymaster general sended Reed a mail giving him the money he deserved for his part and service in the military for helping the wounded. The money was then used for Reeds burial. -
Death
Josiah Reed Died in 1884 from stomach cancer in Troy, Ohio.
