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	Joshua Burnett Ross mustered in Springfield Illinois June 1862 and fought in several major battles. He was born in Clermont County Ohio in 1843 to Osmore L. and Jerusha L. (Burnett) Ross. He was named after Jerusha''s father and lived in Clark County Illinois between Casey and Crooked Creek. He was the first born of 11 children. His brother Silas named one of his sons after him, Joshua Burnett Ross (my grandfather). He was wounded in the Battle of Stone''s River at Murfressboro Tennessee. The 21st sustained the heaviest casualties of this battle. Joshua was wounded in the left chest in December 1862 and died the following February 1863. After he was wounded he was taken to US General Hospital 19 in Nashville, where he died and was buried in grave 3634. He was later moved the National Nasville Cemetery - a well-kept military cemetery opened in 1867, in section E grave 0730. His mother Jerusha filed for his death pension in 1880
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