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Private/Sergeant Daniel A. Wood of Company G, 4th Texas, sustained a total of 11 gunshot wounds during the war, received in seven different battles. However, he passed through Gettysburg unscathed. (Confederate Military History, Extended Addition, vol. XV, Texas, p. 700; Wood’s Compiled Service Record)
During the year 1863, Private Daniel Noon Hudson of Company H, 11th Georgia marched over 1,700 miles and never missed a roll call. (Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida, p. 425)
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Conway Floweree, born in Fauquier County, Virginia on October 16, 1842, succeeded Colonel Waller T. Patton (mortally wounded on July 3) to command the 7th Virginia Infantry, though not yet 21 years old. He was reportedly the youngest colonel of either army. (Confederate Military History, Extended Addition, vol. IX, Mississippi, pp. 349-351)
Major William Thomas Poague, commanding an artillery battalion at Gettysburg, wore an overcoat that was made for General “Stonewall” Jackson, but being rather small for Jackson, Poague purchased it. Poague also used a McClellan horse saddle that was picked up on the field at Port Republic. (Gunner with Stonewall, Reminiscences of William Thomas Poague, p. 76)
Among the horses in Lieutenant William Zimmerman’s (South Carolina) battery was “Old Charley,” a wheeler of Hamilton Owens’ team, which, though slightly wounded in almost every battle, had run the gauntlet of battle, marches and starvation from Suffolk to Spotsylvania. (David Gregg McIntosh Papers, Virginia Historical Society)
During the war, the 4th Ohio Infantry marched 1,975 miles, and traveled an additional 2,279 miles by railroad and other transport, making an aggregate of 4,254 miles. (History of Marion County, Ohio, p. 455)
Early in the war, L. H. Stevens and W. K. Newcomb of Company G, 125th New York tossed a coin to decide who would be the First Lieutenant; the loser would become the Second Lieutenant. Newcomb won the toss. Stevens served on the brigade staff of Colonel George L. Willard at Gettysburg. (Chaplain Ezra A. Simons, A Regimental History, The One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth New York State Volunteers, p. 109)
Second Lieutenant Benjamin N. Thomas of Company K, 44th New York, was mortally wounded defending Little Round Top on July 2; he died on July 8 and his body was reinterred at West Exeter, New York. His mother was a Doty, a direct descendant of Edward Doty, who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. (A History of the Forty-Fourth New York, by E. A. Nash, p. 416)
Lieutenant Andrew S. Bennett of the 5th Wisconsin was present at Gettysburg. After the war, then Captain Bennett with the 5th Infantry was killed in a fight with hostile Indians near Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone on September 4, 1876. (The Plainsmen of the Yellowstone: A History of the Yellowstone Basin, by Mark Herbert Brown, p. 320)
The Corporal Skelly Post of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) in Gettysburg had a small cannon, weighing 150 pounds with a bore of 1.5 inches, fashioned from one of Major Mathis Henry’s guns that had exploded during the fight. (Presumably this was a 3-inch Rifle of Capt. James Reilly’s battery, which burst prior to the Confederate infantry advance on July 2.) (History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania (Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), pp. 181-203; R. T. Coles, History of the 4th Regiment Alabama)
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