2023-08 Raynors HCA Live
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A rare war-date Confederate surgeon's document, 1p. 4to., issued by Surg. James Dove, Fincastle, Botetourt County, [Va.], March 28, 1863 extending the furlough of Sgt. Henry T. Thompson, Co. D, (Fincastle Rifles), 11th Virginia Infantry. As part of Kemper's Brigade, Thompson returned to service in December 1862 after the wound mentioned here healed. He remained with the regiment throughout the war and fought gallantly at Gettysburg during Pickett's Charge, but was captured during the battle of Five Forks and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Md until he took the oath in June 1865. In part: "…I have carefully examined H. T. Thompson private in Co. D 11th Regt of Virginia and find him unable to perform the duties of a soldier because of the effects of a gunshot wound received at the battle of Booneborough, Maryland on the 15th Sept. 1862. the ball penetrated the ulna near the olecranum process & is now healed….there is great tenderness and absence of rotation and some coetaneous eruption…he will not be able to perform military duty in a less period than sixty days….". Negligible weak folds, else VG.
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