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the last lines he wrote before his illness.
He and Dr. Fisher, in whom he found a most congenial coadjutor, appreciated very highly the extraordinary opportunities for surgical and anatomical study that the condition of things afforded, and spent night after night, till the small hours, studying special topics,—the great mortality among the blacks affording large material.
It was this, and his practice in the black camps, quite as much as his regimental duties, that pulled him down.
On the 5th he was seized with typhoid pneumonia, the disease which, as he had told a medical friend, he feared he should not escape in the spring.
For several days he wandered in his mind, talking about the experiments he and Dr. Fisher had in hand, or imagining himself on the battle-field.
The day that he died was the critical one. . . . .A violent cannonade from the Rebel batteries, nearer and more continuous than any that had preceded, excited him to wildness.
It was with difficulty he could be k