Independence
Banned
- Joined
- Sep 21, 2010
- Location
- Tennessee
Larry suggested I post this info so here it is, straight from the pen of Sgt A.T. Bransford ,Company G ,30th Tennessee Infantry ,Army of Tennessee,my grandfathers uncle. He joined the Confederate army in September 1861 as a 17year,4 month old boy. His family were not slave owners.
On 4/5/1894 he said
" .... .... guarding our forces to keep the yankees from getting into our wagon trains while they were making preperations to cross the Tenn River at Decatur Alab when a cannon ball cut my arm off and two other of the boys legs off fired by the yankees."
On about 3/1/1922 he said
"I lost my arm at Decatur Alalbama and stayed in the hospital about 3 days . After coming out of the hospital I went on a empty wagon pulled by 4 mules to west point Mississippi . There I struck the Mobile and Ohio railroad which carried me to Mobile Alabama. I stayed there a few days and crossed the bay and boarded the train for Lynchburg Va stopped before getting there having learned that Sherman had cut the South into after spending two nights there I met with an old gentleman by the name of Jessie Brown,after learning of my condition he carried me to his home where I stayed until the war closed.On my way home a kind red headed lady gave me 10 one dollar bills. I reached home with $2.00 June 1st 1865.next day I was 21 yrs. old."
This is word for word. I used "....." for words I couldn't make out.
On 4/5/1894 he said
" .... .... guarding our forces to keep the yankees from getting into our wagon trains while they were making preperations to cross the Tenn River at Decatur Alab when a cannon ball cut my arm off and two other of the boys legs off fired by the yankees."
On about 3/1/1922 he said
"I lost my arm at Decatur Alalbama and stayed in the hospital about 3 days . After coming out of the hospital I went on a empty wagon pulled by 4 mules to west point Mississippi . There I struck the Mobile and Ohio railroad which carried me to Mobile Alabama. I stayed there a few days and crossed the bay and boarded the train for Lynchburg Va stopped before getting there having learned that Sherman had cut the South into after spending two nights there I met with an old gentleman by the name of Jessie Brown,after learning of my condition he carried me to his home where I stayed until the war closed.On my way home a kind red headed lady gave me 10 one dollar bills. I reached home with $2.00 June 1st 1865.next day I was 21 yrs. old."
This is word for word. I used "....." for words I couldn't make out.
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