John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch, or The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier after the War

Sequel to Our Boys (1864). Chronicles the post-traumatic stress of a Fayette County writer and Civil War veteran who was wounded and lost a leg at the Battle of Antietam.

A. F. Hill (1842-76), born near the Monongahela River in German Twp., Fayette County, served in the 37th Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War and lost a leg at the Battle of Antietam. After the war, he wrote professionally for newspapers in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Uniontown, Fayette County. He also wrote poetry and several books, of which the best known is a black comedy about his post-traumatic stress: John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch, or The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier after the War (1869). Hill married in San Francisco and returned with his wife to Uniontown, where he died November 7, 1876. He is buried at the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery in Masontown, Fayette County.