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“Confederate Reminiscences and Letters”
1861-1865
VolumeXVII
By Gaines W. Ginn
I volunteered in June,1861. Left home in September, 1861 and went into camp six miles from Atlanta and stayed there a while until we formed what they called A. R. Wright’s Legion.
We went to Savannah Ga. in Sept. 1861 and stayed there til June 1862. We went to the Valley of Virginia and went under Jackson. We didn’t stay there but 1 day and night til we marched back to Richmond and went into what they call the seven days fight.
After that I was sick and in the hospital until the 13th of December.
I was in the battle at Fredericksburg and in the battle at Gettysburg. I was detailed to guard the wagon train.
When we went to Virginia we were Lawton’s Brigade, 38th Regiment. Gordon took command of our brigade early in 63. My Regiment was under Gordon then until the surrender.
I was in the battle on the 6th and 7th in the Wilderness, 1864.
On the 12th of May, 1864 I was severly wounded at Spotsylvania Court House, Va. They hit me in the left arm between the elbow and shoulder. The doctor took out 4 inches of the bone in my arm. The same ball went through my left lung and lodged against my backbone and was cut out. I was unable to come home until September, 1864.
So I have been a cripple ever since and still living.
*Reference book located in the research library at the Atlanta History Center.
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