. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . about one-third of thewounded to take up their quarters in the residences of willingcitizens of the town and immediate vicinity. Those who coulddo so were required to report at the hospital every day, or onalternate days, and one of the assistant surgeons or myselfvisited, from time to time, such as could not walk to the hos-pital. Nearly all of these out-patients, as well as someothers in my hospital, went south with Hoods battered battal-ions as they retreated beyond the Tennessee River in the daysfollowing December 17, 1864. In
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . about one-third of thewounded to take up their quarters in the residences of willingcitizens of the town and immediate vicinity. Those who coulddo so were required to report at the hospital every day, or onalternate days, and one of the assistant surgeons or myselfvisited, from time to time, such as could not walk to the hos-pital. Nearly all of these out-patients, as well as someothers in my hospital, went south with Hoods battered battal-ions as they retreated beyond the Tennessee River in the daysfollowing December 17, 1864. In my hospital, while at Franklin, only seven men died;two from abdominal wounds, three from gunshot wounds inthe head, one with amputation of thigh, and one who refusedto submit to amputation—I never amputated a limb withoutconsent of the wounded man—after the nature of his case hadbeen fully explained to him. Despite all arguments and rea-soning, this man refused amputation, was greatly depressedand despondent from the first, and died on December 23d, as.
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