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Johnson Suit, 6th Alabama

An old post on this board on 6 Jan 2010 from Miles Krisman inquired about Johnson Suit, and Alan Pitts replied that Suit served in new Company "D" of the 6th Alabama. ADAH records show him as Johnston Suits, wounded at Gettysburg on 1 or 3 July 1863. I found him listed in The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, vol. 3, p. 360: Private Johnson S---, Company D, 6th Alabama, age 18 when wounded at Gettysburg on 3 July by a musket ball which entered one inch from the chin on the left side and lodged. He developed partial paralysis on 18 or 19 September and died on 28 September 1863. An autopsy revealed that the ball had lodged in his fifth cervical vertebra.

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