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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 2 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
e ball in his arm by cutting it out. They accordingly gave him ether. Large quantities were administered without any effect, when the Major sat up in bed, and in a few minutes the ball was removed. Three weeks from the day of our capture, Professor Davis and several other surgeons decided, in consultation, that the Major's leg would never heal, and should be amputated. Upon the Major being informed of the decision, he merely remarked, The sooner the better. The same afternoon he was taken some weeks, during which occasional letters were received from the surgeon and other friends, giving rise to alternate hopes and fears, a letter came, bearing on its envelope the words, Announcing the death of a prisoner of war. It was from Dr. J. S. Davis, stating that James had died of exhaustion, on the 22d of October, without acute suffering. His mind had been perfectly clear till within a few hours of death, after which the circumstances which surrounded him faded from his view, and he t