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Confederate Veteran To Be Buried TodayALEDO* -Parker.County, Texas*Sept 6.:’ (UP)—James Hamaker, 94, Confederate veteran injured three .times; at ■. Gettysburg battlefield, ill be buried; here today.Hamakcr's final injury, believed to: have hastened his death,., occurred in Ju!y when he fractured a shoulder in a fall from the bertu on a train at the Civil War* Veterans’ • reunion on the Pennsylvania battlefield. He was carried1 on a stretcher, however, to see familiar points on - the battlefield where he was wounded twice by federal bullets,75.years ago. . .The aged soldier collapsed in his chair yesterday at noon. A housekeeper was present at. his death. V .Ha maker enlisted in . General Stonewall Jacksofi’s division in Virginia when he was ‘16 years old, and was with Pickett's command in its ill-fated charge up Cemetery Hill 'during the battle of .Gettysburg.-
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Corpus Christi Times
Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Tue, Sep 06, 1938
Page 9
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