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The late Col. John T. Mercer.
--The Tarboro (N. C.) Southerner, of the 23d, has the following sketch of the late Col. John T. Mercer, of the 21st Georgia regiment, who fell in the recent attack on Plymouth:
Col. Mercer was a military man Col. John T. Mercer, of the 21st Georgia regiment, who fell in the recent attack on Plymouth:
Col. Mercer was a military man by education, having graduated at West Point in the year 1854. --He was in the same class with Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, Gen. Hood Gen. Curtis Lee, and Gen. W. D. Pender, and graduated with them.
At the time the war broke out he was stationed in CalifoCol. Mercer was a military man by education, having graduated at West Point in the year 1854. --He was in the same class with Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, Gen. Hood Gen. Curtis Lee, and Gen. W. D. Pender, and graduated with them.
At the time the war broke out he was stationed in California, and was 1st Lt. in the 1st U. S. Dragoons.
Hearing that his native State had seceded from the old Union, he immediately resigned his commission in the U. S. service, and tendered his services to the Confederate Government at Montgomery, Alaba brigade, and tell during the charge upon Fort Sanderson, which was taken a few minutes after his fail.
The remains of Col. Mercer arrived here on Wednesday night last, and was interred in the Episcopal Cemetery by the side of the late and lamented