My great uncle, Franklin Boring, was captured at Roswell, Georgia, July 9, 1864, while home recuperating from a wound sustained at Spotsylvania May 8th or 9th, 1864. A minie ball went through his left shoulder, broke the shoulder blade, and came out near his spine in his lower back. After going through Marietta, Nashville, and St. Louis he arrived at Camp Douglas around the 18th. He went through that winter and was paroled on June 16, 1865. His pension request said the time as a POW gave him rheumatism. That, combined with his wound, just about crippled his left arm. Each year his description of his condition and the cause got shorter, until, in 1924, his wife wrote the last one. She said, "He went to the war and it killed him." Her pension continued, but she died later that year. Uncle Frank had died in 1896, having been housebound his last twelve years.

My other great uncle, Alexander N. Boring, was captured at Cedar Creek October 19, 1864, and ended up at Pt. Lookout, Md. He was paroled June 24, 1865. Family tradition says they both walked home to Georgia. Uncle Alex lived until 1906.

My great grandfather, Lemuel H. Boring, died at Seven pines in 1862. He is buried in Oakwood cemetery, in Richmond. All three were in Company A, 18th Georgia Infantry. Until after Antietam, the 18th was part of the Texas Brigade. They fought in the cornfield there, and in the wheatfield the second day of Gettysburg. While attached to Cobb's brigade, they were on the right at the stone wall at Fredericksburg. After Cobb's death, Regimental Commander W.T. Wofford was promoted to Brigadier and thereafter it was Wofford's Brigade. Stan