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Joseph Johnston's Workman's Comp Claim

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Johnston claimed after he arrived in Jackson, he could not ride to Pemberton and take command because he was still somewhat incapacitated from his Seven Pines Wound. British observer Sir Arthur James Lyon Freemantle writes of riding on a train with Johnston from Canton to Jackson shortly afterward and having to stop to collect wood to feed the engine. "Johnston worked with so much energy as to cause his 'Seven Pines' wood to give him pain. We were put out at a spot where the railroad was destroyed, at about four miles from Jackson. A carriage ought to have been in waiting for us, but by some mistake it had not arrived, so we had to foot it."

So Johnston was unfit to hop in an ambulance and ride to Pemberton, but he could load a train with firewood and walk four miles in a single day.

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