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Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army - Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South by William G. Stevenson
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"CORINTH, Tuesday, April 8, 1862.

"To the SECRETARY OF WAR, Richmond:

"We have gained a great and glorious victory. Eight to ten thousand
prisoners, and thirty-six pieces of cannon. Buell reinforced Grant,
and we retired to our intrenchments at Corinth, which we can hold.
Loss heavy on both sides.

"BEAUREGARD."




CHAPTER VI.

HOSPITAL SERVICE.

Wounded arriving. -- Care of my own Men. -- Appointment as
Assistant-surgeon. -- Discharge from Rebel Army. -- Dreadful
Scenes. -- Sickness. -- Nurses. -- Stoicism. -- Military
Murder of a Deserter. -- No Pay. -- Go to Mobile. -- Spirit
of the People on the Way. -- Met at Depot. -- No Means of
Escape. -- The Stagnant City. -- Surveillance of the Press.
-- Forced Charity. -- In charge of a Hospital. -- Selma. --
Kindness of Ladies. -- Piano. -- Artesian Wells. -- Model
Hospital. -- Furlough to Richmond. -- Rigid Discipline. --
Disappointment. -- Bitter Thoughts. -- Crinoline and
Volunteering. -- North asleep.

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