... inexperienced surgeons performed operations upon our men in a most horrible manner, some of them were absolutely frightful. When, he adds, I asked Doctor Darby to allow me to amputate the leg of Corporal Prescott , of our regiment, and said that the man must die if it were not done, he told me that I should be allowed to do it. While Dr. Homiston was waiting, he says a secessionist came through the room and...