Usage Date: October 25, 1864

Usage Location: Vicksburg, Miss.

Recipient: Mrs. Samuel Lugg (Jane Lory)

Jane (Lory) Lugg was born July 21, 1834.  She and Samuel had 5 children before she passed away suddenly in January 27, 1892.  While Samuel served with the USCC, Jane would have had two children at home, ages 1 and 3, to care for.

Author: Samuel Lugg (likely)

Samuel Lugg was a minister who served with the U.S. Christian Commission in Vicksburg during the war.  He was born in February 11, 1837, in Cornwall, England and emigrated to the Unites States in 1858.  In the U.S. Christian Commission, he was under D. L. Moody, western agent, who was secretary of the YMCA at Chicago, Ill., and served Sept. 1, 1864, to Dec. 27, 1864. He returned home because of poor health. (There is a record of him performing a marriage at the USCC in Vicksburg on October 19, 1864.)