...urnished for these pages. During the war, the wife of the poet daily visited the improvised hospitals of Columbus, Georgia. in one of these, the old bank's building, Mrs. Ticknor first saw the boy, Isaac Newton Giffen , and was so haunted by his pitiful condition that when the doctors declared his case hopeless, she carried him in her own carriage to torch Hill, the country home of the Ticknors. There under the ...