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Reading the Alabama Confederate April edition of the magazine I came across this interesting comment.
MAN WHO KILLED STONEWALL JACKSON
After living the life of a hermit in the forest of South Carolina for forty years, "Wild John" Starnes died June 10. Starnes had been a well known character throughout that section for many years. It has been generally supposed that he was the Confederate soldier who accidentally shot General Stonewall Jackson.
It is stated that Starnes became mentally unbalanced soon after the war, supposedly from his connection with the killing of General Jackson. He made a hovel of goods boxes in an unsettled section of the forests and had shunned the society of mankind.
From: The Florence Herald
Florence, Alabama -- Thursday, July 27, 1911, page 2.
(Submitted by Bob Bentley.)
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MAN WHO KILLED STONEWALL JACKSON
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Reading the Alabama Confederate April edition of the magazine I came across this interesting comment.
MAN WHO KILLED STONEWALL JACKSON
After living the life of a hermit in the forest of South Carolina for forty years, "Wild John" Starnes died June 10. Starnes had been a well known character throughout that section for many years. It has been generally supposed that he was the Confederate soldier who accidentally shot General Stonewall Jackson.
It is stated that Starnes became mentally unbalanced soon after the war, supposedly from his connection with the killing of General Jackson. He made a hovel of goods boxes in an unsettled section of the forests and had shunned the society of mankind.
From: The Florence Herald
Florence, Alabama -- Thursday, July 27, 1911, page 2.
(Submitted by Bob Bentley.)
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