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The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1865., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Bragg's army. (search)
Phelps's (Yankees) Military and historical Map of the War. --Map of Charleston Harbor; Budget of Fun, with over 500 comic cuts; new lot of Yankee Pictorials, profusely Illustrated with scenes of the war in Tennessee, Virginia, and Charleston; Harper's Magazine; London Index; Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore Papers, (intent dates,) at the Confederate Reading Room. All the Southern and city papers. Admission, 25 cents; ten tickets, $2. Open at night until 9 o'clock.
The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], One thousand Dollars Reward. (search)
tive substitutes for living bone and muscle. In the early part of last year an eminent staff surgeon in the Confederate army was dispatched to London, and took up his quarters in the neighborhood of a skilled artist. He came provided with models of the truncated members of a number of Confederate officers, spent several weeks in superintending the manufacture of a number of arms, legs, hands, &c., which were supplied in sets of two or three each, that, amidst the perils of blockade-running, one at least should reach its destination in safety. On one particular specimen of ingenuity particular care was bestowed, and the surgeon took charge of it himself, sewing it up in a waterproof easing, that it might survive the chances of being trow overboard to be rescued from the clutches of Federal chasers. This was the identical limb — an "Anglesy leg," as it is called — which enabled General Hood to take active service again, and assume the command of the army at Atlanta.-- London Index
The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], One thousand Dollars Reward. (search)
ive substitutes for living bone and muscle. In the early part of last year an eminent staff surgeon in the Confederate army was dispatched to London, and took up his quarters in the neighborhood of a skilled artist. He came provided with models of the truncated members of a number of on federate officers, spent several weeks in superintending the manufacture of a number of arms, legs, hands, &c., which were supplied in sets of two or three each, that, amidst the perils of blockade-running, one at least should reach its destination in safety. On one particular specimen of ingenuity particular care was bestowed, and the surgeon took charge of it himself, sewing it up in a waterproof casing, that it might survive the chances of being throw overboard to be rescued from the clutches of Federal chasers. This was the identical limb — an "Anglesy leg," as it is called — which enabled General Hood to take active service again, and assume the command of the army at Atlanta.-- London Index