SoAlaNorthGeorgian
Private
- Joined
- Apr 24, 2019
- Location
- Northwest of Big Shanty
It looks like he didn't want to miss the war. I mean, we all know it was going to be over in 90 days. He wasn't even from that county. Why did he go there to enlist in Company C, 7th Georgia Infantry? The Paulding County Rifles. Yet, he was from Campbell, a County that exists no longer in the state of Georgia. This area is now Douglas County. Was he going to miss it? I think, yes. He went to the best way to get into the fray. I know he had relatives there, and they served in other units. But, he chose this.
He was wounded at the first battle of the war (HE DID NOT MISS IT!!), Manassas (strange, spell check says that's wrong). He had his right arm amputated, and spent healing time in the Richmond hospitals. He was discharged in early December 1861. He did not miss it. He was home for Christmas. By February 1862, he'd married the Irish girl he grew up with as a neighbor. Issabelle. She gave him a child. I appreciate love stories.
In August of 1864, the union army came through that place and arrested Issabelle for treason for working at the Manchester Mills factory. Sherman's army then sent her and fellow co-workers north to Indiana. She was never heard from again.
This man had his arm taken, his wife and the mother of his child, taken. Ya done good yankee boys. Thank you, Abe.
I visited his grave not too long ago. It turns out that I used to live less than two miles from where he is buried. It's strange to find these things out, in the end.
I'm going to replace his headstone. He died in 1889. His mamma and sisters buried him (the 1870 widows and orphans census). They did the best they could, but the survivability of the existing headstone is questionable.
He was wounded at the first battle of the war (HE DID NOT MISS IT!!), Manassas (strange, spell check says that's wrong). He had his right arm amputated, and spent healing time in the Richmond hospitals. He was discharged in early December 1861. He did not miss it. He was home for Christmas. By February 1862, he'd married the Irish girl he grew up with as a neighbor. Issabelle. She gave him a child. I appreciate love stories.
In August of 1864, the union army came through that place and arrested Issabelle for treason for working at the Manchester Mills factory. Sherman's army then sent her and fellow co-workers north to Indiana. She was never heard from again.
This man had his arm taken, his wife and the mother of his child, taken. Ya done good yankee boys. Thank you, Abe.
I visited his grave not too long ago. It turns out that I used to live less than two miles from where he is buried. It's strange to find these things out, in the end.
I'm going to replace his headstone. He died in 1889. His mamma and sisters buried him (the 1870 widows and orphans census). They did the best they could, but the survivability of the existing headstone is questionable.