"Isaac B. LEACH, Jr., of Company I, 28th Regular Maine Volunteers, died at the residence of his father, Isaac B. Leach, Esq. of North Penobscot, of chronic diarrhea September 10, 1863, age 30 years, 6 months. At the call of the President in 1862 for 9 monthsmen, he volunteered, went down to New Orleans where we trust he gave his heart to God, thence thru all the meanderings of his military up and down the Mississippi. Before Port Hudson he contracted that terrible disease which carried him off. When his regiment started for home, he was sick, but he kept with it until it reached Augusta where he was able to proceed no farther. His father went and brought him home. On his way, he said, "Father, if ever I get well, and my country calls for me again, I shall go. I feel it to be my duty." God called him before his country did. After his return, he talked much about religion. It was his solace in pain, for he was a great sufferer, but patient. Not a murmur escaped his lisps. His end was peace."
