My great uncle, Francis A. Boring, Co. A, 18th Ga. Infantry, ANV, was at home recuperating from a wound received at Spotsylvania in May 1864 when he was captured at Roswell in July. He was sent to Marietta and thence on the same route as Pvt. Smith, to Camp Douglas. He was paroled after the war, in June 1865. He walked home to Georgia. He claimed in his pension application that his exposure at Camp Douglas gave him rheumatism. His shoulder wound had cost him the use of his left arm, having passed through his shoulder blade and exited near the spine in his lower back. He was house bound the last twelve years of his life'
From Cobb Disabled soldiers; roll: Disabled or Invalid Soldiers Roll of Cobb County, GA lists F. A. Boring with Company A, Regiment 18 GA. Disability for which pension is granted: rheumatism. Witnesses: J. M. Stone, J. R. Humphries, C. H. Fields, C. T. Phillips. Pension was $50 a year from 1896-1899. Under the column of 1900 he is listed as dead. (He died in 1899. He is buried in a Baptist cemetery on Wade Green Road in Cobb County.)
Boring, F. A. - Private April 1, 1861. Wounded in 1862. (This was a minor wound. He spent two weeks in hospital at Lynchburg, Va. His serious wound was in 1864, as above stated.) Captured at Roswell, GA July 9, 1864. Released at Camp Douglas, IL June 16, 1865. Stan