Resident of Saylor Township, Polk County, where his father now resides; a recruit; joined the army Oct. 3, 1864, after a residence in Polk County, Iowa, of about ten years. He was assigned to Company H, 15th Iowa Infantry, and served until July 4, 1865, when he died of disease at Nashville, Tenn. He was born in Erie County, Penn., July 4,1841. At home, a hard-working farmer boy; in the army, a dutiful soldier. I was well acquainted with Franklin Spots, and always held him in high esteem. He had many friends in the neighborhood where he lived; and I think he had no enemies.
SOURCE: Leonard Brown, American Patriotism: Or, Memoirs Of Common Men, p. 229
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