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You
can’t tell from the photo, but everything was sopping wet after a legendary
Gettysburg rain-shower. :-) In the foreground is a 12-pounder Napoleon
representing the King William (Virginia) Artillery at Oak Hill. This particular
barrel dates from 1862 and was cast by the Augusta Foundry. The artillery pieces
in the background are Whitworth guns and belong to the Hardaway (Alabama)
Artillery, Hurt’s Battery.
**HONORED TODAY**
PVT. GEORGE W.
WEATHERINGTON
Co. H, 2nd Mississippi
Infantry
Died July 01, 1863 at
age 24
Pvt.
Weatherington enlisted in August 1861 and in civilian life was a teacher. He
suffered a previous wound at the battle of 2nd Manassas/Bull Run in August
1862, surviving that injury only to die at Gettysburg (likely at the Railroad
Cut) less than a year later.
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