From remarks delivered by his pastor 13 Apr. 1863 and published in The Confederate Baptist, 29 Apr. 1863, p. 105:
"In the death of A.J. Goethe, who fell on the field of battle at Manassas Junction, on the memorable 2d and 3d August, 1862, many of us have lost a sterling friend. His family and connections have grieved for one whose brilliancy of youth and manliness of more mature years was an ornament to the name....Amidst a widowed mother’s tears and the entreaties of brothers and sisters he girded him for the conflict, saying ‘if I knew that I would be killed, I would go.’ On the morning that he left for Charleston to join Capt. Haskell’s company, we knelt in prayer and committed him and our cause to the God of justice. He endured the usual hardships of the camp life from about the 15th of August, until the above named battle. A comrade who was by his side says he fought boldly. The enemy were routed but returned with increased numbers. Our men were ordered to lie down, in which position many were killed. They were then commanded to fall back, in doing which our noble Andrew received a missle of death in his head. He was numbered with the slain of the day."
"In the death of A.J. Goethe, who fell on the field of battle at Manassas Junction, on the memorable 2d and 3d August, 1862, many of us have lost a sterling friend. His family and connections have grieved for one whose brilliancy of youth and manliness of more mature years was an ornament to the name....Amidst a widowed mother’s tears and the entreaties of brothers and sisters he girded him for the conflict, saying ‘if I knew that I would be killed, I would go.’ On the morning that he left for Charleston to join Capt. Haskell’s company, we knelt in prayer and committed him and our cause to the God of justice. He endured the usual hardships of the camp life from about the 15th of August, until the above named battle. A comrade who was by his side says he fought boldly. The enemy were routed but returned with increased numbers. Our men were ordered to lie down, in which position many were killed. They were then commanded to fall back, in doing which our noble Andrew received a missle of death in his head. He was numbered with the slain of the day."
From remarks delivered by his pastor 13 Apr. 1863 and published in The Confederate Baptist, 29 Apr. 1863, p. 105:
"In the death of A.J. Goethe, who fell on the field of battle at Manassas Junction, on the memorable 2d and 3d August, 1862, many of us have lost a sterling friend. His family and connections have grieved for one whose brilliancy of youth and manliness of more mature years was an ornament to the name....Amidst a widowed mother’s tears and the entreaties of brothers and sisters he girded him for the conflict, saying ‘if I knew that I would be killed, I would go.’ On the morning that he left for Charleston to join Capt. Haskell’s company, we knelt in prayer and committed him and our cause to the God of justice. He endured the usual hardships of the camp life from about the 15th of August, until the above named battle. A comrade who was by his side says he fought boldly. The enemy were routed but returned with increased numbers. Our men were ordered to lie down, in which position many were killed. They were then commanded to fall back, in doing which our noble Andrew received a missle of death in his head. He was numbered with the slain of the day."
"In the death of A.J. Goethe, who fell on the field of battle at Manassas Junction, on the memorable 2d and 3d August, 1862, many of us have lost a sterling friend. His family and connections have grieved for one whose brilliancy of youth and manliness of more mature years was an ornament to the name....Amidst a widowed mother’s tears and the entreaties of brothers and sisters he girded him for the conflict, saying ‘if I knew that I would be killed, I would go.’ On the morning that he left for Charleston to join Capt. Haskell’s company, we knelt in prayer and committed him and our cause to the God of justice. He endured the usual hardships of the camp life from about the 15th of August, until the above named battle. A comrade who was by his side says he fought boldly. The enemy were routed but returned with increased numbers. Our men were ordered to lie down, in which position many were killed. They were then commanded to fall back, in doing which our noble Andrew received a missle of death in his head. He was numbered with the slain of the day."
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