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Note: . The Union Sufferd 837 Casualities and the Rebs 600 Jack was over com
by heat during the battle and lay unconscious for several Hours . about a month latter,
he fought in the bloodiest skirmishes of thr war , The battel of Kennesaw Mountain.
During the battel, Jack was cutting pine trees to through up a temporary fortification.
A Comrade next to him sliped and almost severd Jack's right foot with an ax.
He was in a Post hospital for three months in Chatanooga Tennessee then he
was transferd to a hospital in Atlanta Georga and did not rejoin his regement
untill September, 1864 he then served in the Savannah as a Mounted Forager.
He was honorably discharged June,7, 1865 in Washington DC. after three long
years of fiting he came home a broken body but not in Spirit.
Life was one Hardship after another for Jack untill his death his foot left him a cripple
and unfit for manual labor. Jack and his large family of 8 children one that was blind
was verry poor and survived on a pension of 6.00 a month in 1882 it was increased
to $12.00 a month in 1883 it was raised to $24.00 a month where it remained untill
his death.
Researched and writen by Rod Cookson of Quency IL.
Note:
Andrew Jackson Cookson was a Private in Company K, 78 th Regiment of the IL. Infantry
Volunteers to cerve in the Civil Warr. Major battles he fought in where Rockface Ridge
in May 1864
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