. A treatise on Marks' patent artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet. th having already been promoted tothe rank of corporal and with fair prospects of further advancement; butfive men returned of the fifty-five which Company B mustered at thestart. Twenty-three were killed, and twenty-seven captured, among the lastJanuary himself, who a few days later, after the usual transfers had beeneffected, was imprisoned at Anderson ville. On the fall of Atlanta he wassent to Charleston, S. C, and ten days later to Florence, S. C, where heremained until the end of the war. The trials and hardships
. A treatise on Marks' patent artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet. th having already been promoted tothe rank of corporal and with fair prospects of further advancement; butfive men returned of the fifty-five which Company B mustered at thestart. Twenty-three were killed, and twenty-seven captured, among the lastJanuary himself, who a few days later, after the usual transfers had beeneffected, was imprisoned at Anderson ville. On the fall of Atlanta he wassent to Charleston, S. C, and ten days later to Florence, S. C, where heremained until the end of the war. The trials and hardships of prison life andConfederate prison fare now began to tell sadly upon Januarys constitution ;from the hale, robust stripling of 165 pounds at the time of his capture, threemonths further of all but starvation at Wilmington, N. C, after his release,found him reduced to forty-five pounds ! But the end was not yet. After atedious and fatiguing journey he was landed at Davids Island near New YorkHarbor, , at the end of seven months, dwindled to a skeleton by the L. No. 267. ravages of a loathsome disease, wTas mustered out of the service on the 15thday of October, 1865. The last sad scene of this harrowing drama had nowto come. A prey to scurvy and gangrene, which had all but separated hisfeet from the legs ; unaided by the surgeons ; despairing but yet desperate,for his native fortitude had not forsaken him, his own hand guided the knifethat severed the meagre thews, the only remaining attachmentsof those feet! As convalescence progressed, his chief preoccupation was the thought:should he ever be able to walk again ? His feet were gone. How might hereplace them ? Agents from the several manufacturers of artificial limbs paiddaily visits to -the hospital, each seeking to secure the preference of the maimedsoldiers for his special system of apparatus. But one particular day FrankStewart was announced, as representative of the already well-known inventorA. A. Marks, of New
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