. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . GEN DAVID B. BIRNEY. REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION consequences of this act. His one thought was for mycare, and to get me into the hands of his friends and myfriends, if possible, at the hospital. Arriving back near the river, they placed me tempo-rarily in a small tent, until Colonel Randlett could findthe surgeon in charge, who as it happened was a personalfriend—Dr. Dearborn—a cousin of the late Dr. SamuelDearborn of Nashua. While lying upon the ground in thetent I heard voices outside discussing my case. The gen-. ^wfVe-
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . GEN DAVID B. BIRNEY. REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION consequences of this act. His one thought was for mycare, and to get me into the hands of his friends and myfriends, if possible, at the hospital. Arriving back near the river, they placed me tempo-rarily in a small tent, until Colonel Randlett could findthe surgeon in charge, who as it happened was a personalfriend—Dr. Dearborn—a cousin of the late Dr. SamuelDearborn of Nashua. While lying upon the ground in thetent I heard voices outside discussing my case. The gen-. ^wfVe-^i^i^^ GEN. BIRNEYS HEADQUARTERS. eral opinion as expressed, that came to my ears, was thatthere was no possible chance for my recovery. I didnot agree with them, however, in my own had been brought back and had found theirway from the battlefields, and the hospital tents were be-ing rapidly filled. Colonel Randlett soon returned and they took me tothe tent, where examinations w^ere made and amputa-tions performed, and placed me upon the amputating ta-ble. Many a poor boy had here been through the sur-geons hands and their shattered arms and legs amputat-ed, a glance around showing the severed limbs still lying 466 IMPORTANT RP:srLTS OF THE BATTLE OF DEEP iU)TTf)M Upon the ground. It was a Chanil)er of I lorrors. ( )ih-of the cheerful ( ?) sights that met my eyes was severalsurgeons with their sleeves rolled up and blood upon theirhands and arms. An examination of my wound was made, showingthat the bullet had entered on the right side, shatteringtwo of the r
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