Butts County GaArchives Military Records.....Jacob Vickers March 18 1884
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Jacob Vickers – After Twenty Years

Mr. Jacob Vickers (the death of whose son is announced elsewhere) is now in a 
condition to command the sympathy of every veteran who participated in the late 
war.  On the second day of July 1863 when Lee and Jackson’s lines marched 
against the impregnable heights of Gettysburg amid the shriek of shot and shell 
and the clash and roar of the cannon; while in 80 yards of enemies guns, he was 
struck by a shot from a cannon which was larger than a rubber ball, taking off 
the top of one hip bone passing directly through; taking out the back bone and 
the top of the other hip bone in passing out, leaving a wound that seemed 
almost impossible to heal, and from which he suffered enough for many deaths. 

 Time restored it so as to enable him to resume work, and earn a living; and 
now – after a lapse of 20 years, the pangs equal to another death is upon him, 
and he lies in the most excruciating pain from the most fearful rising we ever 
saw  -  The effect of the wound I his hips.

This second affliction has been upon him for several weeks, and it is hard to 
predict the results.

It does seem to us that he as suffered ten times more than his share of the 
curse of an unholy war.

Middle Ga. Argus – Week of March 18, 1884


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