Sun-Maryland--7/30/1863
Battle Field of Gettysburg, PA--Second Corps Hospital-July 26, 1863 --To G. S. Griffith, Esq., and Rev. Messrs McJillon and Hays of the Baltimore Christians Commission
Excerpt:
We have in our corps a man who has lost both his feet and will probably die. In the third corps a lad of eighteen has met with a like misfortune. In a barn nearby lies a nephew of Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, whose leg has been amputated. On his way to Kentucky, he was conscripted, "though" said he, "my mother would rather seen me dead than in the rebel army." His brothers were forced in also, and he had never heard from them; "but," said he, looking down on the "stump," "there is one comfort to be derived from it. I can stay in my father's house without fear of being taken."
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