Schley County GaArchives Military Records.....S.J. Williams February 3 1888
Civilwar - Pension Co. D, 13th Ga. Inf.
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State of Georgia
Schley County

Personally appears S.J. Williams of Schley County, State of Georgia, who, being 
duly sworn, says on oath that he is a bona fide citizen and resident of said 
state, and has been such since the 17th day of Sept. 1833; that he enlisted in 
the military service of the Confederate States during the war between the 
States, and served as private in Company "D," of 13th Regiment of Georgia 
Volunteers, Lawton's Brigade; that whilst engaged in such military service, at 
the battle of Malvern Hill fight during the 7 days battle around Richmond, in 
the sate of Virginia, on the 1st day of July 1862, he was wounded as follows:  

While charging a battery was struck with a minnie ball on left thigh slightly 
cutting the skin when said ball struck deponents pocket book & glanced and 
entered the body of deponent just above the left groin & striking the pubic 
bones fractured them and ranged towards the right hip joint and lodged near the 
right hip joint where it remained for elven (eleven?) years three hundred & 
fifty days when said ball cut its way the wound having over healed whichball 
when it struck deponents pocket book it drove eight st??? po??s in deponents 
body where part of them are yet, said ball injured the ???? in deponent's right 
leg also leaders to that.  Said leg is stiff and renders it necessary for 
deponent to carry a stick all the time to walk.  Sometimes  said wound gets so 
bad as to require deponent to use crutches.  Deponent being a farmer by 
occupation, said leg is useless and renders deponent permanently & practically 
incompetent for the performance of ordinary manual labor.

Deponent desires to participate in the benefits of the Act, approved October 
24, 1887, and makes application for the allowance to which he is entitled 
thereunder.

S. J. Williams

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 3rd day of Feby. 1888.

T.J. Dozier, Ordy.



COMMISSIONED OFFICER'S AFFIDAVIT

State of Georgia
Schley County

Personally comes befoe me W.T. Stewart of the county of Marion, State of 
Georgia, who, being duly sworn, says that he was a commissioned officer in 
Company in Company "D" of 13th Regiment of Georgia Volunteers, and that 
deponent knows S.J. Williams, and that he received the wounds in the military 
service, as stated in his foregoing affidavit, and that wounds permanently 
disables the said S.J. Williams, as stated by him in said affidavit.  Deponent 
further states that said S.J. Williams is a bona fide citizen of this state, 
and resides in Schley county.

W.T. Stewart

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 3rd day of February 1888.

T.J. Dozier, Ordy.



State of Georgia
Schley County

Personally comes before me T.J. Dozier, Ordinary of said county, C.H. Smith and 
J.N. Cheney, both known to me as reputable physicians of said county, who, 
being severally sworn, say on oath that they have carefully examined S.J. 
Williams and after such examination say that the applicant has been injured as 
follows:  

By a minnie ball which fractured the pubic bones, passed up and rested in the 
body of the pubis near the joint of the right hip.  There is considerable loss 
of bone at the sym??? pubis, mostly on the left side but there is no ma????y at 
the sym??? ????? but the right ???? is substantially ???? ???? from trying 
to ??????? of nerve probably the ?????  The disability is principally from 
injury to the ???? which supply the extensor muscles of the thighs and which 
thighs is appeciably no ????? at the symphy??? pubis from the case of so much 
of the bony substance ??? the body of the bone and afterwards ????? ?????? in 
the ?????? ?????  The wound healed after the ball came out.  It, the ball, had 
the appearance of a minnie ball much flattened.  The scar at the symp???? 
indicates the formidable nature of this wound and the general appearance of the 
man indicates his disability.

C.H. Smith, MD
J.N. Cheney, MD

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 3rd day of Feby 1888. 

T.J. Dozier, Ordinary

Attest C.R. McCrory, Feby 11, 1888
Clerk Court Ordinary, Schley Co.




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