Letter from David Blair to Hannah R. Wilson, 1862, Oct. 16.

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Letter from David Blair to Hannah R. Wilson, 1862, Oct. 16.

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A letter that David Blair wrote to a female friend of his back home. The letter describes the battlefield at Perryville and his arrival at the hospital, including a harrowing description of hasty amputations that "looked more like cutting up hogs than anything."

4 p., 20 cm.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 8324949

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United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 38th (1861-1865)

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Blair, David, fl. 1862

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David Blair, private of Co. B. of the 38th Indiana Infantry. He became ill on the eve of the battle of Perryville and was left on the battlefiled among the wounded. He was shipped to Hospital No. 6 in New Albany, Indiana, arriving there on the evening of October 14, 1862. From the description of Letter from David Blair to Hannah R. Wilson, 1862, Oct. 16. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 84649944 ...