Answer. I have charge of ward N, Mound City General Hospital.
Question. Is that the ward in which are the colored men we first examined yesterday?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Have you prepared a statement of the condition of the men in that ward whose testimony we have taken?
Answer. I have it here; it is a brief history of their cases, where they were wounded, how they were wounded, and the condition they are in.--(Appendix to this deposition.)
Question. Were you here in the hospital when those men were brought in?
Answer. I was.
Question. Had you any conversation with them then?
Answer. Yes, sir; with the greater part of them.
Question. Did you hear their testimony yesterday?
Answer. I did.
Question. Did the statements they made to us correspond with the statements they made to you when they were first brought here?
Answer. They did.
Question. So far as you can judge, from your experience as a medical man, are their statements in relation to their injuries corroborated by the appearance of the injuries themselves?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. How many of those men have died since they have been received here?
Answer. Only one in my ward.
Question. How many are there now who you think will not recover?
Answer. I think there are three who will not recover; perhaps more.
Ward N.--
Private Elias Falls, company A, First Alabama artillery, shot in arm while fighting, shot in thigh after being prisoner, flesh wound, condition favorable;
private Duncan Harden, company A, First Alabama artillery, shot in arm while fighting, arm broke, shot in thigh after being prisoner, flesh wound, favorable;
private Nathan Hunter, company D, First Alabama artillery, shot in side and hip after surrender, flesh wound, condition favorable;
Sergeant Benjamin Robinson, company D, First Alabama artillery, shot in thigh and right leg after surrender, flesh wound, favorable;
private Daniel Tylor, company B, First Tennessee artillery, shot in right shoulder, shot in right eye after surrender, destroying sight, unfavorable;
private John Haskins, company B, First Tennessee artillery, shot in left arm after surrender, flesh wound, slight, favorable;
private Thomas Adison, company C, First Alabama artillery, shot in nose and right eye after surrender, destroying sight, unfavorable;
private Alfred Flake, company A, First Alabama artillery, shot in left hand while lying sick in hospital, flesh wound, unfavorable;
private Manuel Nichols, company B, First Alabama artillery, shot in left side before, and right arm after surrender, flesh wound, serious, unfavorable;
private Arthur Edmonds, company C, First Alabama artillery, shot in head and right arm after surrender, causing fracture of arm, condition favorable;
private Henry Hanks, company A, First Alabama artillery; shot in left side after surrender, wound serious, condition unfavorable;
private Charles Key, company D, First Alabama artillery, shot in right arm after surrender, fracture of arm, condition favorable;
private Henry Christon, company B, First Alabama artillery, shot in back before surrender, wound serious, rather favorable;
private Aaron Fintis, company D, First Alabama artillery, shot in both legs after surrender, flesh wound, slight, condition favorable;
private George Shaw, company B, First Tennessee artillery, shot in left side of head, shot in right wrist after surrender, not serious, favorable;
private Major William, company B, First Tennessee artillery, shot through nose after surrender, not serious, condition favorable; officer's servant
William Jerdon, Thirteenth Tennessee cavalry, shot in left ankle, amputation, shot in left arm, fracture of arm after surrender, very unfavorable;
Corporal Alexander Naison, company C, First Alabama artillery, shot in right side of head after surrender, not serious, favorable;
private Thomas Gadis, company C, First Alabama artillery, shot in right hip after surrender, serious, condition unfavorable;
Corporal Eli Cothel, company B, First Alabama artillery, shot in right leg while fighting, shot in left arm after surrender, flesh wound, favorable;
private Sandy Cole, company D, First Alabama artillery, shot in right thigh and arm after surrender, flesh wound, condition favorable;
private Nathan Modley, company D, First Alabama artillery, shot in right knee after surrender, injury of joint, condition unfavorable;
private John Holland, company B, First Tennessee artillery, shot in right thigh after surrender, flesh wound, condition favorable;
private Robert Hall, company C, First Alabama artillery, sabre cut of head and left hand while lying sick in hospital, died.
Question. What is your position in the service?
Answer. I am an
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Question. Have you prepared a statement of the cases of those of your patients whom we examined here?
Answer. Yes, sir; here is a statement.--(See appendix to this deposition.)
Question. Did you have any conversation with those wounded men in relation to their injuries when they first came to the hospital?
Answer. I did to some extent.
Question. Have any of the wounded from
Answer. One in ward H.
