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during the summer in a Regiment of Pennsylvania Cavalry, they on station at Camp. One part of the
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sister heard that the brother was sick and with the energetic help of a true Englishman cured
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the county nine miles out to his camp. I took the same day found him in an almost dying
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condition and begged that he be sent to
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her, she was taken shortly after in an ambulance
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and upon his arrival his condition was found to
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be great deterioration - he had been attacked
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with ordinary fever and had lain around
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until the fever upon all parts of the body which
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resulted hard upon abdomen was under his back
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drained some open perfectly black and was falling
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out. His heels had around the same appendage
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too long also came dropping off of the feet
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his stockings had never been removed during
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all his illness and his toes were matted and gum
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together and were now dropping off at the joints
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then entirely put on medical attention was sum-
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mand from the city the doctor of residence
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who examined was that his extremities were
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necrosis for want of nourishment, he had
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been neglected until he was literally starving.
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The surgeon of the regiment came to see him, but
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had no idea of his condition, said that
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then first surgeon was killed and that li
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