distant from the battlefield. From his own personal testimony, John would describe the trip from Waterloo, Alabama to Macon in 1865, in which he was detailed to pull men and horses out of streams that were being forded. There is no evidence regarding whether John ever engaged in combat. All that is known is that he caught a cold. [10] After Appomattox, while his unit was in Macon, Georgia, he was a victim of sunstroke while doing exercise drills there. [25] He was treated by the regimental physician for a week. [26] The statement regarding drills is the only evidence that he took part in any soldierly activity.
Family Man
John Henry Walkinshaw would muster out with the rest of his unit on August 13th, 1865 from Macon, Georgia. Afterwards, John returned to his life as a farmer in Iowa. He would live in Clarinda and/or Blanchard, Iowa both of which were in Page County, Iowa, in the far southwestern corner of the state along the Missouri border. Based on the birthdates of his children, it can be surmised that he moved just across the border to Atchison County, Missouri somewhere between 1874 and 1876, [2] though he would maintain an Iowa post office box with which to continue his correspondence. It is unclear in what capacity John Walkinshaw was a farmer. He himself made it very clear that his injuries would have made him a poor farm hand. [27] However there is no data that suggests he had the financial resources to buy land and employ others, so one wonders how he was able to survive. His pension would not have been sufficient to feed himself and his large family (see below). There is an affidavit in 1900 from a Mr. McKee who states that he had worked for
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