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Thomas Cox Bible
On the afternoon of July 9th, Thomas Cox from Carroll County Virginia, a private in the 21st Virginia Infantry, Company A, was struck by a bullet while fighting on the Thomas Farm during some of the fiercest combat of the day. The bullet glanced off the spine of the Bible he was carrying and wounded him. He was captured by Union forces, treated in a Frederick hospital, and then transported to the West Building Hospital in Baltimore.
Once in Baltimore, Cox was assigned a caretaker, H. Shepherd Smith. Smith was a Confederate soldier captured at Gettysburg. Cox and Smith made notations in the margins of the Bible which can still be seen today. Vox died from his wound roughly five weeks later. |