Trivia Weekend Bonus 4-17-15

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I forgot it was friday. d'oh!

What is the name of the veteran who was shot in the eye at the battle of Vicksburg during the Civil War, and 58 years later supposedly coughed the bullet out of his mouth?

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I thin it was W.V Meadows

Edit - You "thin" correctly, skippy. Welcome to the trivia game.

Hope you'll come back and play again.

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Private Willis V Meadors (aka Meadows, Medders, Meaders) Co G 37th Alabama Volunteer Infantry (enlisted at age 19 from Lanette, Chambers County, AL)

Here's a link to Meadors' Find A Grave Memorial http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61268956

And here's a link to a great story about how Meadors eventually reunited and became friends with the man who fired the bullet, Peter Knapp, Co H 5th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20091011/News/910110337

Gotta love stories of this kind where the men who were once enemies trying to kill one another are later reunited and become friends! :bounce:
 
Confederate soldier WV Meadows was shot in the eye during the Battle of Vicksburg. He managed to survive and 58 years later he coughed the same bullet out of his mouth.

26 March 1921 New Holland Clarion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania:
Old Veteran Coughs Up Bullet.
Lanett, Ala. – W. V. Meadows, [78] years of age, of this place, veteran of the civil war, and shot in the eye at the battle of Vicksburg, July 1, 1863, coughed out the bullet and is in his usual good health, despite the fact that he had carried the slug weighing approximately one ounce in his head for fifty-eight years. Mr. Meadows was a member of Company G, thirty-seventh Alabama Infantry.

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Read the entire story (and it's even more amazing) here:
http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20091011/News/910110337
 
Further on Willis Meadows (Meadors) - he must have had good medical insurance!

POW “sick and wounded”, Gen’l Hosp No 2, paroled at Vicksburg Miss., July 16 1863

List of Confederate prisoners delivered off Mobile Harbor, Ala August 4 1863 (one of 611 prisoners turned over on board SS Crescent)

In Ross Hospital, Mobile AL Sept 18 1864 Typhus (febris intermittens)

POW “nurses and patients of Moore Hospital of the CSA surrendered at Citronelle, Ala., by Lt Gen R Taylor CSA to Maj Gen E R S Canby USA May 4 1865 and paroled at Meridian, Miss May 16 1865

For a one-eyed man with a bullet in his head, his signature on the parole at Vicksburg isn't too bad:

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Willis Meadows, Company G of the 37th Alabama Volunteer Infantry.. It was said to be fired by Peter Knapp, Company H of the Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry .

Edit - Correct, M.Warren. Welcome to the trivia game.

Hope you'll come back and play again.

Hoosier
 
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