| From the pension application of John B. Goodwyn: |
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| Enlisted in Co. A, 1st Georgia Volunteers for 1 year,
and then enlisted immediately in Co. A, 12th Ga. Battalion Art.
Discharged April 9, 1863. In the state of Tennessee on the 6th day of
July, 1862, while being transported from Atlanta to Chattanooga, Tenn.
to join Bragg's army, the train on which I was riding collided with
another train, head on, and I was caught under the wreckage, being
caught by the drive wheel of one of the engines on my left leg, crushing
same, and ... was held in this position from 3 o'clock in the afternoon
until 6 o'clock of the same day, before being extricated. When taken out
my left leg was crushed, and turned round to right angle. From the day I
was hurt to Christmas of the same year I was not able to use my left leg
at all, and when I returned to my command about the 1st of the year
1863, I was furnished a horse to ride, as I could not walk, and I was
not able to walk to do service for some three or four months, and then I
began to walk, with much pain, but managed to pull through, and my old
leg did me pretty good service, by being patched up. But now in my old
age I can use my leg but little, and cannot walk at all on same without
suffering much paid, which renders the left leg practically and
essentially useless to use... 6th day of July 1917. |
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| {Found in the Georgia Virtual
Vault, Confederate Pension Applications, Coweta County, John B. Goodwyn
by Tom Elmore} |
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