Joel A. Lewellen

An Act for the relief of Joel A. Lewellen

Whereas Joel A. Lewellen, formerly a private soldier of Company D, First Regiment Georgia Volunteers, who lost an arm above the elbow at the battle of Chickamauga, September 19, 1863, and that not apprised of the benefit of the Act of September 20, 1879, until after the passage and enforcement of the Acts of 1882 and 1883 for the appropriations to furnish maimed soldiers with artificial limbs, ...

Enacted relief in the sum of sixty dollars in place of artificial arm ..., approved 15 OCT 1885

Source: Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia, State of Georgia, pub: J. Johnston, 1885