Berrien County GaArchives News.....Giddens, Hardy January 8 1887
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Lee Collins Askmrcollins@aol.com May 6, 2004, 11:57 am

The Valdosta Times Saturday, January 8, 1887
A Good Soldier.

Mr. Hardy Giddens, of this county, went into the army at the
commencement of the war and fought through till the close. In the battle
of Chickamauga his clothing was torn in twenty-seven places by bullets,
only two of which touched his flesh, cutting the skin on the left hip
and grazing the little finger on the left hand. One bullet cut
shoe-string in two, another burst his canteen, one cut his cartridge
belt in two, one tore the leaf of his cap off and one cut the breach of
his gun in two while shooting. His regiment, the Twenty-Ninth, Georgia,
went into the fight with about 700 men and came out with twenty-seven.
His company, Company K, were all killed, wounded and captured, except
one and his clothing was riddled with bullets. Mr. Giddens is now 46
years old, is hale and hardy, and is one of Berrien's solid
farmers.-Alapaha Star.

We learn that since the above started on the rounds, Mr. Giddens has
fallen a victim at last to a bullet fired by some one at a country
frolic in Berrien County.


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