OBIT: Lewis G. STEWART, 1873, Water Street, Huntingdon County, PA

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Deaths.

Stewart. - In Waterstreet, Huntingdon county, on Saturday morning, May 
24, 1873, Lieut. Lewis G. Stewart, aged 35 years.
  The subject of the above notice was well and favorable known to many 
of the readers of the Standard. When Camp Crossman was formed near 
Huntingdon, at the breaking out of the war, he was among the first to 
enlist and was mustered into the service in the 110th at Camp Curtin, 
when that regiment was organized. He participated in all its trials up 
until the time they lay in front of Petersburg, when he was discharged 
on account of incipient pulmonary complaint, from which he eventually 
died, although he had for several years past apparently entirely 
recovered. During his term of service he was made adjutant of the 
regiment, in which capacity he was serving when discharged. Among his 
comrades he was held in universal esteem on account of his soldierly 
courage and the kindliness of his disposition. Warm and true in his 
social intercourse, he never lost a friend or made an enemy. During his 
illness no word of complaint ever passed his lips, and not until within 
three or four days of his death did he even indicate by his countenance 
the terrible suffering he was enduring. Calmly and peacefully, in the 
arms of a loving sister, he went down into the valley of the shadow - 
let us believe to emerge into the sunlight that brightens the hills 
beyond. - Standard.

Huntingdon Journal, Wednesday, June 11, 1873