My other great uncle, Alexander Newton Boring, 4th Sgt., Co A, 18th Ga. Infantry, Wofford's Brigade, ANV, was captured October 19, 1864 at Cedar Creek. He was sent to Pt. Lookout, Md., and paroled in late june, 1865. He also walked home. Late in life his eyes began to go bad, and were the basis for his pension. His application was signed by his Co. CO, Captain James Lile Lemon, one of the immortal 600, who was captured at Knoxville, where their CO, Col. S.Z. Ruff, was killed. I think a lot of the eye problems were caused by four years' exposure to bright sunlight, and maybe gun powder. My GGF, Lemuel H. Boring, also of Co. A, died at Seven Pines in may 1862, possibly of illness, as he made it to a hospital in Richmond. He's buried at Oakwood Cemetery. Luckily, my GF was born in 1859!

Until after Antietam, the 18th Ga. was part of the famed Texas Brigade, which was commanded during the battle by Col., later Gen., W.T. Wofford, Hood having been promoted. Stan