White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1903-05-14

ginia with Colonel Burt's 18th Mississippi
Regiment, fought the first battle OF Manas-
as; received commission surgeon P, A.
c. S. dated Iune 9th 1861, as | came of
the battle field of Balls Bluff, and made
staff surgeon by commanding General
Evans
The federal sick and wounded received
from the battle of Balls Bluff, one of the
most decisive and fruitful battles of the
war only l, 900 confederate muskets engag-
ed, eventuated in killing 2, 100 men, capt
ure of 800 stands of arms, 3 Mt. Howitzers,
sending $50 prisoners to Richmond and
turning back column ten thousand strong,
commanded by General Stone who was at :
forwards cashiered and General Baker of
Oregon was klled--Who were not able to
be forwarded TO prison quarters at Rich
mond, we're placed in a hospital, organic
ed by and in my charge at Leesburg Va,
received the same bedding, rations and
medical attentions as confederate soldiers
A very interesting case IA man of the
18th Massachusetts regiment, a native OF
the mountains of Vermont a perfect ath-
ete, over six feet high, ISo lbs. weight,
never sick day in his life was admitted
with his arm torn to fragments by grape
shot, which | amputated, just above the
seat of injury, in the upper third of the
humerus using this scalpel for surgeon S
knife and a carpenters lennon saw to cut
the bone and it healed by first intention,
and he was discharged in fourteen days al
ter receipt of wound sound and well. The
ligature was removed on the ninth day
with but drop of supperation at each suit
ure and in three DAYS the Cicatrix was COM
plete.
The Winder Hospital and grounds, COW
ering I15 acres of land, with capacity fol
300 patents was organized in April 1876.
and conducted by me for three years, til
within ten days of General Lees surrender
1t consisted of six divisions, each in charge
of division surgeon and six assistants
with its appropriate dispensary, laundry
kitchens and corps OF matrons, nurses anc
attendants the whole surrounded by Z
guard of of I25 men under and commits
stoned captain Attached to the hospi
tai was the most approved Russian steam
plunge and shower baths a bakery will
| capacity to bake for ten thousand men dai
ly, 10 acres of hospital garden, worked by
convalescents, a dairy with 90 mick cows
with appropriate barns and stables, dair,
yielding three hundred gallons of mill
daily; an ice house, forty feet square an'
wenty feet deep filled with ice, a com
mssariat, and a medical examining boar
of three surgeons, giving me command a
II wears of age, with 800 hundred hospita
attendants ranging from two to five thous
and men.
had a oft ditch cut down a hollow fror
central grounds of the Hospital, leadin
towards Iames river, over which was cor
structed line of water closets. and tw
ten thousand gallon water tanks, whic
were pumped full of water and ditch hooC
ed every other day, carrying off all debra
} and filth from hospital grounds BY premi
sion from Sec. of War, had constructed NV
| canal boats that ran up the Kanawha can;
and furnished the hospital from the moul
tains with weekly supplies of fresh butte
' eggs, chickens, geese, turkeys honey an
I every other necessity that the vast hospit
: fund, amounting to twelve hundred ar
f twenty thousand dollars, created by cor
mutation OF army rations and from the no
hnl. cnltlA nhtoir Cor h. 90. Il.