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Excerpt from William Newby, Alias "Dan Benton," Alias "Rickety Dan," Alias "Crazy Jack," or the Soldier's Return: A True and Wonderful Story of Mistaken Identity
With many of his Old White County neighbors and friends. at Shiloh, on Sunday morning, April 6, 1862, when the rebels made their first grand Charge upon the Union lines, the 4oth met them in that deadly conflict, and in a few mo ments many fell. Many were killed and many wounded, and N'ewby, who was left on the field, was thought to be wounded fatally. The regi ment retreated, and three days later his comrades thought they buried him with the rest. And this fact was 56 reported to the government. T now seems that they were mistaken, and that, instead, he was taken prisoner and carried away into the South to Belle Isle, thence to Andersonville, Where, although he had lost his reason from the wound upon his head, he was kept in that pen, and known there as Crazy Jack, his identi.
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