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I WAS captured at Gettysburg on the fifth day of July, 1863. A
bullet had passed through my right knee during the fierce
engagement on Culp's Hill, July 3rd, and I fell into the hands of
the Federal Army. By the 6th of July Lee had withdrawn from
Pennsylvania, and, despite the serious nature of my wound, I was
removed to the general hospital, Frederick City, Md. Here for, at
least a month, I was under the charge of the regular army surgeons,
at whose hands I received excellent and skillful treatment. For
this I have ever been grateful. I recall, also, many kindnesses
shown me by a number of Catholic Sisters of Frederick, whose
special duty was the care of the sick and the wounded. On the 14th
of August I was taken to Baltimore. Upon arriving, I was forced to
march with a number of fellow prisoners from Camden Station to the
office of the Provost Marshal, then situated at the Gilmor House,
directly facing the Battle Monument. The weather was intensely hot,
and my limb was bleeding from the still unhealed wound. After an
exhausting delay, I was finally removed in an ambulance to the
"West Hospital" at the end of Concord street, looking out upon
Union Dock and the wharves at that time occupied by the Old Bay
Line or Baltimore Steam Packet Company.
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