John S. Lynch of Company I (Wetumpka Light Guard), 3rd Alabama Infantry was reported as having died at Camp Letterman General Hospital near Gettysburg on 1 August 1863. He was buried in the makeshift hospital graveyard in Row 2, Grave 6. On 13 June 1872, his remains were reburied in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. There was a discrepancy as to his rank at time of death - one source lists Private; another Sergeant. However, unlike most Confederate soldiers, John Lynch's last days were recorded for posterity, by nurse Harriet A. Dada, whose reminiscences were originally published in the National Tribune, and then republished in 2004 as Ministering Angel: The Reminiscences of Harriet A. Dada, a Union Army Nurse in the Civil War. Nurse Dada worked at the Union Twelfth Corps hospital from 7-21 July, and when that hospital was closing she moved to Camp Letterman, where she worked in the second ward until 21 October. Although the sequence of her narrative suggests that she first encountered Lynch at the Twelfth Corps hospital, it may be that she first saw him at Camp Letterman, less than two weeks before his death. She writes: "In one of the tents was John S. Lynch, of the 3d Alabama, in whom I became much interested. He was an earnest, simple christian, and his faith in God was so childlike. Then, too, he said: 'If my mother only knew how kind you are to me. It will kill my mother for me to die without her knowing of my fate. I believe the Almighty will restore me.' But he was severely wounded in his right thigh and kept growing worse. The last rational words I heard him speak were: 'Mother, you and I will meet in Heaven.' ... I sent a letter by a flag of truce, giving her the particulars of his death, and after the war I learned that she received it." Nurse Dada found a poem that Lynch had written down, which ends: "Walking in the somber light; We know not we can live aright; He calls us to a land that's bright; - His will be done, we know it's right."