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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 109 1 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 17 7 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 13 3 Browse Search
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 10 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 6 0 Browse Search
Allan Pinkerton, The spy in the rebellion; being a true history of the spy system of the United States Army during the late rebellion, revealing many secrets of the war hitherto not made public, compiled from official reports prepared for President Lincoln , General McClellan and the Provost-Marshal-General . 5 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Fearful Leap and probable Fatal consequences. --About two o'clock yesterday afternoon, a man named David Davis, a deserter from the Forty-eighth Virginia regiment, attempted an escape from Castle Thunder by jumping from the second story window, in the rear part of the building. Instead, however, of effecting his escape, he broke his left leg above the knee and shattered his jawbone in the fall. The bone to his broken limb, it is said, perforated the flesh and stuck into the ground, fast fastening him so securely as to keep him in an upright position till he could be extricated by the guard. He was subsequently taken to the prison hospital, where surgical attendance was procured; but, owing to the character of the injuries received, very great doubt is entertained of his ultimate recovery. The prisoners in daily association with Davis assert that he has recently shown symptoms of mental aberration of mind, and that the rash act was committed while in one of these fits.