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Relative of Andrew Johnson

An undated newspaper clipping from the Bucks County Intelligencer newspaper (Pennsylvania) describes a visit to Gettysburg after the battle by a citizen of the county. This visitor described an encounter with a captive rebel: "... one young man who had his leg amputated, and was otherwise injured, represented himself as a nephew of Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee - he said he had raised a company of cavalry at home, to fight for the Union cause, but was arrested and forced into Confederate service. As he related the story to different persons, and was quite intelligent and seemingly honest in his motives, there was no reason to doubt his story." Any clue as to the identity of this Confederate? It is surmised that he served in one of the three Tennessee regiments at Gettysburg, the 1st, 7th, or 14th.

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