Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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Kate Cumming: A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee.

January 15, 2014

Kate Cumming: A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee.

January 15.—The weather has cleared off, and all seem glad of the change.

Mr. Bradley has had his arm amputated; he came here with a slight wound on his elbow, made by an ax. Gangrene got into it, and could not be arrested. It eat so rapidly that the joint was nearly destroyed.

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