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The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1861.., [Electronic resource], A South Carolinian killed by a Railroad car. (search)
A South Carolinian killed by a Railroad car. --The Petersburg Express of Saturday records the death of private J. C. Wrenn, of the Catawba Light Infantry, Capt. J. L. Stratt, of the Sixth Regiment South Carolina volunteers. The unfortunate accident occurred about one o'clock on Thursday night, at Johnson's Plain, six miles beyond Roam's Station, and about sixteen miles from Petersburg, while, gay and light-hearted his company was coming on to engage in the defence of Virginia and the South. Mr. Wrenn and a portion of his company were riding upon a flat car attached to the train, he being seated on the front bench very near the edge of the car. Wearied and worn down by the fatigue of a long journey he unconsciously fell asleep, and while in that state, aided it is supposed by a slight jar of the train, he pitched forward and fell between the two cars Awakened by the fall, he endeavored to sustain himself, but to no use. The car passed over his body, cutting off his right leg nea