Beasley, David Harrison

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Beasley, David Harrison
First lieutenant, Co. F; QM, 125th Illinois Volunteers, 1862-6. (Unfinished Catalogue) POW; returned to home on night of Lincoln's assassination (per DePauw chapter history). Unit muster roll says private, then QM sergeant; enlisted August 14, 1862, mustered out July 29, 1865.

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Lawyer, Urbana IL. Initiated March 11, 1859. Chapter president 1861 to June 19, 1862. Born 1839; brother of Alfred Wise Beasley (DePauw 1858). Private, then quartermaster sergeant 125th Illinois Infantry; enlisted August 14, 1862, mustered out July 29, 1865. P.O.W. in Libby Prison. Paroled and returned home to Montgomery Co., Indiana the night President Lincoln was assassinated. Married Anna Clapham. Died 1927. Buried Riverside Cemetery, Attica, Indiana.
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