Wm L Roach
Civil War pension application
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W L Roach, of Whitfield County Georgia, has lived continuously in Georgia since birth, 1842. That he enlisted during the War Between the States, served as a private, Company G, 36th Regmt GA Volunteers, Cummings Brigade. While engaged in such military service, on the retreat from Nashville TN, on December 1863, he was disabled as follows: My leg was so badly ulcerated from varicosities that I was sent to the hospital from Florence AL, and stayed in the hospital at Columbus Mississippi sometime, was then furloughed and went from there to Macon Georgia, there my furlough was extended and I remained in southwest Georgia disabled from duty until the surrender, then I came back to my home in Whitfield County. I have never recovered my the full use of my leg and for the last twelve months or so I have been unable to walk without the help of a stick and sometimes I can only get around my room by holding on to the back of a chair and pushing it before me. I am entirely incapable of performing the normal vocations of life. W L ("X" his mark) Roach, 11 Mar 1892.
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