Butts County GaArchives News.....WAR RELICS March 25, 1897
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Jackson Argus – March 25, 1897 March 25, 1897
Some of the old soldiers have some relics of the “dark days” that they elling(?)
to very fondly.

We were shows the other day an old zinc canteen by Mr. John Dodson of Stark that
he captured in Mississippi in 1862 and carried thereafter throughout the war. 
It is known as a “yankee canteen” and is of much better material and finish than
those used by the Confederates.   It holds something over a quart and is
remarkable well preserved.   That old canteen has had some stormy up and downs.
 The water it has toted was always wet. Though not always pure, and it is prized
for its associations as well as for the good it has done.

Mr. Dodson also showed us   a Minnie ball that was cut from his side near
Atlanta.   In a skirmish with a fragment of Sherman’s army he was shot in the
hip and the ball was cut out by a surgeon with a common pocket knife four or
five hours afterwards.   This bullet is what soldiers call a “spent ball” but it
was badly mutilated from contact with a large bone.




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