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Re: Wyatt Harman - 18th Texas Cavalry, Company E

Wyatt Harman is buried in Barnesville Georgia. I have been researching a horrible head on train collision that occurred in Lavender's curve just below my family's plantation house. Some call it the "Milner Train Wreck." I believe that Wyatt had been injured and had been placed on the train with many other injured confederates as well as Union prisoners. Hood was trying to get them out of Atlanta and Jonesboro. They collided with a train of supplies heading toward Atlanta. The accident occured on Sept 1, 1864 and Wyatt would have been cared for by family and neighbors and transported to the hospital at Barnesville, GA. He died per his headstone on Sept 3, 1864. The ones who died instantly are buried in a mass grave up on a hill above the curve in my family's old cemetery.

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