. Incidents and adventures in rebeldom; Libby, Bells-Isle, Salisbury. always hada long string of complaints and charges to pour into his earsagainst the horrible Yankees, but Woodward, upon such oc-casions, would chuck her affectionately under the chin andlaugh and joke and make light of her complainings, and thiswould sometimes put her in a very angry mood. I neverknew him to take action on her complaints, evidently consid-ering them but the vaporings of an ill-humored and anti-quated old maid. She railed out upon Richie and Warmanone day until those gentlemen became very angr>^ and threat
. Incidents and adventures in rebeldom; Libby, Bells-Isle, Salisbury. always hada long string of complaints and charges to pour into his earsagainst the horrible Yankees, but Woodward, upon such oc-casions, would chuck her affectionately under the chin andlaugh and joke and make light of her complainings, and thiswould sometimes put her in a very angry mood. I neverknew him to take action on her complaints, evidently consid-ering them but the vaporings of an ill-humored and anti-quated old maid. She railed out upon Richie and Warmanone day until those gentlemen became very angr>^ and threat-ened to boost her out of a window ; for this she promptlyreported them to the higher rebel authorities, and as a con-sequence they were promptly sent over to Libliy and con-fined in what was known as the retaliation room, where thev Enables Lee to Escape. 165 were kept for some time as a punishment for their offenseagainst her highness. I supposed they had been paroled,and I did not learn of their incarceration in the penal roomuntil we had returned from the CHAPTER XIV. Disciples of Esculapius. Our hospitals afforded to the fledglings of Esculapiusand the nonentities styling themselves physicians, an elegantopportunity, which by the way they were not slow to availthemselves of, to practice their art, or rather to demonstratetheir ignorance of the principles of the science which theyaffected to be masters of. And as the prisoners had nofriends to protest against their being subjects for the experi-ments of harlequins and their unskilled and senseless treat-ment, the consequence was that changes in surgeons (falselycalled) were frequent. Among the patients in my department was a vigorous,hearty German who had been hit high up on the forehead bya bullet, causing a depression of the skull at that point, re-sulting in compression of the brain and causing the most ex-cruciating pain. Obviously, relieving the pressure was thething needed, which could have been readily accompli
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