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G. W. Polston

G.W. Polston volunteered for the Union Army on 15th Feb. 1864 and reported for duty in Carthage, Tenn. He was given the rank of private in Company D, commanded by Capt. Rufus Dowdy, in the First Regiment of the Tennessee Mounted Infantry.

G.W. Polston was formerly discharged on 25th April, 1865 in Nashville, TN because of injuries he had received in the war.

On the 29 Nov. 1864 G.W. wounded by a Confederate soldier while on a march near Spring Creek Bridge near Carthage. The musket ball passed through his right thigh and nicked the large bone in his leg. He was treated at the Masonic Hall in Carthage from Dec 64 to Feb. 27th, 1865. While in the hospital he contracted measles which caused him to lose his hearing in his right ear.

After the war he returned to Cumberland County, Ky. and the family farm on Lewis Creek near Burksville. It was 15 miles southwest of Burksville on the Hillham Road.

His signature was listed on his application for a disabled veteran's pension.

G.W. married Kizzie Scott on 28 May 1874 in Burksville.

A doctors record on Sept 4, 1875 in a pension applications said that G.W. Polston was 6-2, 150 lb, with dark hair and fair skin.