ORSON OTIS DAVID Oct 21, 1843-March 3, 1865 Fremont's Orson O. David enlisted at age 21 in Co. d. 27th. Michigan Infantry on March 29, 1864 at Grand Rapids. He was captured near the Weldon Railroad on August 21, 1864. Imprisoned at Anderson. He was later transferred to Wilmington Prison, North Carolina, where he died on March 3 1865. He is buried at the National Cemetery at Wilmington Note-The following is part of a story was written by Mrs. Florence M. Spooner, a sister of Orson David. SOME THINGS I REMEMBER OF THE CIVIL WAR AND LINCOLN by Florence M. Spooner In the spring of 1864 three young men from Newaygo County went to Grand Rapids to get employment. They were Henry and David kinball and Orson David, the latter my brother. Not finding work easily, and meeting an officer from the recruiting station, they decided to enlist in the army. in a few days, they, with other, were sent to St.Johns for a few weeks then they were giving a furlough and they came home to bid goodbye to the loved ones that they were to leave behind. My mother was a true patrict and did not say a word to discourage my brother, but I can never forget their parting. After he had been in the army for some time, he wrote home how tired he was that day for the soldiers had carried bags of sand to build breastworks. there were no trenches to be sheltered in as in the World War. After they had been engaged in several hard battles, sometime with only a handful of the men of the company remaining, david Kimball was wounded and sent to the hospital. Nearly every letter we received from my brother had a song printed on the first pageof the paper, such as "Rally Round the Flag," "Before and After the Battle" and many others.