Georgia's Allen Daniel Candler: One Wife, One Baby, One Dollar and One Eye"

From Wikipedia.

Follow up on Candler from the previous post. I was unable to find further details on his helping Union General Dow to excape execution by the Montgomery mob, unfortunately. But, this is one interesting man as more research revealed.

Born Nov. 4, 1834 and died Oct. 26, 1910. State legislator, U.S. Representative and Georgia's 56th governor.

In May 1862, he enlisted as a private in the 34th Georgia Volunteer Infantry and was soon elected by the others as a first lieutenant.

He fought at Vicksburg, Missuionary Ridge, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta and Jonesboro and later was a colonel under Gen. Johnston in North Carolina at the end of the war.

He was wounded at Kennesaw Mountain and lost an eye at Jonesboro. When he made the comment that he had "one wife, one baby, one dollar and one eye" at the end of the war, he was saying that he was more fortunate than others.

Candler County, Georgia, is named for him.

--Old Secesh

Great Locomotive Chase Medal of Honor Donated

From the April 5th Sacramento (Ca) Bee "Civil War Medal of Honor Donated to Kennesaw, Georgia, Museum" by The Southern Museum.

A ceremony was held April 12th when a rare Civil War-era Medal of Honor was donated to Kennesaw's Southern Museum of the Civil War and Locomotive History.  The Waggoner family of Ohio, descendants of Sgt. John M. Scott, a participant in the April 12, 1862 Great Locomotive Chase of Andrews' Raiders.

Union soldiers seized the Confederate locomotive General and headed for Chattanooga, tearing up tracks along the way.  The Medal had previously been on loan to the museum and now will go on permanent display in the museum's extensive collection of the event.

Someone Stop That Train.  --Old Secesh