Application for Headstone states buried here

Enlisted from Wilkinson County, Georgia on 19 May 1862; mustered in same date, Company A, 49th Georgia Infantry Regiment, C. S. A., as a Private; wounded in action on 5 May 1864 during the battle of the Wilderness; furloughed, for 60 days on 21 January 1865; furloughed on 3 April 1865, (Macon, Georgia), furlough extended; died due to disease on

"Case 206. — Private Cannon, Co. A, 49th Georgia, aged 24 years, was wounded at the battle of tlie Wilderness, May 5, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which struck an inch below the left trochanter major, extensively comminuting the femur and lodging in the adductor muscles. The Confederate line being forced back, the wounded man lay on the ground all night until the early morning, when the Confederates recovered their wounded. In Cannon's case, the consultation at the field infirmary by Surgeons J. J. Dement, Holt, J. J. Wynne, and P. P. Henderson, it was determined to enlarge the wound and remove the detached fragments of bone. Accordingly, the patient having been chloroformed, Surgeon Dement made an incision two inches upward from the entrance wound, and extending from the wound downward four inches. On ascertaining the condition of the parts, it was decided to exarticulate the head of the femur. This was readily accomplished, and then the neck and upper extremity of the shaft were removed. The fragments of the upper extremity of the femur, when put together, measured four and a half inches. The haemorrhage during the operation was trivial. All the medical gentlemen present remarked upon the slight degree of shock induced by the operation. The limb and body were confined by roller bandage to a straight splint extending from the axilla to the foot, A full dose of sulphate of morphia was then administered. In a few hours the patient was placed in an ambulance wagon and conveyed to Orange Court House, twenty-five miles distant, and thence by rail to Staunton, about seventy miles farther, where the after treatment was conducted at the general hospital. Little can be learned of the after treatment, save that the patient was supplied with rich diet, a liberal allowance of wine, and that no untoward complication occurred except the formation of abscesses attendant on an exfoliation of a ring of bone from the upper end of the shaft. When this was eliminated, the wound rapidly healed. At the end of nine months the cicatrix was firm. The limb was shortened three inches, and was useless for purposes of locomotion. The patient was in fine health, and moved about on crutches. He went to his home, in Toombsborough, Georgia, in February, 1865, and earned a livelihood by his trade of shoemaking. He enjoyed good health until November 12, 1865, when he had an attack of diphtheria which terminated fatally on November 23, 1865." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1883.