Pvt. W.P. Mealor, Cobb's Legion, Used a pocket knife to cut off leg shattered by cannon ball

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The Athens banner. (Athens, Ga.) April 26, 1912, Image 24

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W.P. Mealor Find a Grave.

Returned to action & joined Capt. Henry A. Gartrell’s Co. of Forrest’s Cav.

The McDuffie progress. (Thomson, Ga.) February 07, 1913, Image 1
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You have this one and the Forrest/Gould fight. We're there any other incidents involving a pocket knife during the Civil War? Lots and lots of men carried one during the War, surely several got used somehow.
 
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