From the Channel 36ABC WTVQ "Ky Civil War Union soldier gravestone dedication."
We honor our veterans living or deceased.
Sunday afternoon a grave stone was dedicated to a Union soldier at Three Forks of Bacon Creek Baptist Church Cemetery near Magnolia in Hart County.
It is for John Robert Lobb, Co. E 27th Kentucky Infantry, known as "Johnny" and later "Grand Pop" to his family.
The gravestone was made and placed in 2020 but the dedication delayed until now because of the virus.
The family applied to the the VA for a new headstone.
On May 31, 1864, "Johnny" was injured in the Battle of Burnt Hickory near Kingston, Georgia, when a minie ball struck his right arm above the elbow. After treatment in a hospital, he returned to his company.
He was honorably discharged on March 19, 1965, and returned to Hammonsville and began farming.
--Old Secesh
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