James C. Gordon claimed he fired the last cannon shot with Captain John James Ward's Alabama light Artillery on April 16,1865,a week after General Robert E. Lee surrendered. If true, what battle was fought on April 16,1865? Was it the Battle of Columbus,Georgia or the Battle of West Point,Georgia? One Buck Hamlet of Ward's Artillery claimed in his pension application that he was wounded at Kennesaw Mountain and West Point,Georgia,so I am thinking it was the Battle of West Point,Georgia that James C. Gordon fired the last cannon shot with Ward's Artillery. Ward's artillery is of interest to me because my Sylvester Brown Stephenson served in Ward's Artillery.
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