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Re: Battle of Shiloh survivors
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Hello. I had two relatives at Shiloh.
Both were wounded.
Sgt. J. D. Pearce was with the 8th Arkansas, and bathed his wounds at the bloody pond. As my grandmother said of her grandfather, "he was shot through and through."
After several days his brother at Mifflin, Tennessee was summoned to take him home. There, he recovered and sat out walking to rejoin his group at Cornith on the 4th of July, 1862. J.D. Pearce served all over the South in some very big battles. I have been told there were fewer than 100 men from the 8th to make it back to Arkansas. I have found descendents on maybe 10.
Sgt. J. D. Pearce was later a gunsmith in Lonoke County, Arkansas dying in Durant, Oklahoma about 1902, I believe it was.
My great grandfather, James T. Harper, was with the 5th Tennessee. He was shot in the knee at Shiloh, the same wound the big officer(General Johnston) of the CSA had, but his artery was not severed as was the officer's. James T. Harper was there when General Johnston was brought in by his men.
J. T. Harper man also marched all over the South. That man was later in England, Arkansas where he served as deacon in the Baptist Church. He died in 1928 leaving a lot of decendents in the area.
I am posting this so people know that even when wounded, that the soldiers came back and fought again, as they have given their individual promises and kept their committments.

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