...oidable noise made by relieving guard during the night watches, and he had become so emaciated that the largest part of his thigh measured less than an ordinarily stout man's upper arm. I appealed to Dr. Cooper for a medical opinion, and he wrote the following letter: Fortress Monroe, Va., May 23, 1866. Madam:I am in receipt of your communication of date, in which you ask of me how the health of your ...