"About 1/3 of the men of the company records showed they were wounded in the "left side of the body". This struck me as unusual for so many men to have the same wounds (about 10 to 12 men) until I realized that they must had to have been in the process of aiming, which exposed their left sides to their enemy, when they recieved a volley fire. It was an interesting snapshot of one instance of their Battle."

Edward, this is consistant with the wound, listed as "VS", received by my great uncle Frank at Spotsylvania in May 1864. The ball hit his left shoulder, ranged downward, breaking his left scapula, and exiting near the spine in his lower back. He was captured in Roswell, Georgia in July, and spent the last months of the war at Camp Douglas. His pension application stated the exposure he suffered there gave him rheumatism. This malady bothered him for the next thirty years, the last twelve of which he spent as a homebound invalid. Stan