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of his assistants, "I won't be greedy; you may do I;" and the young man did it. I saw a number in my room, many of whom had been badly amputated. The fleys over the step were drawn too tight, and some the banes protruded. A man by the name of Prescott (the same referred to in the testimony of Surgeon Homiston) was amputated twice, and was then, I think, moved to Richmond before the taps were healed. Prescott died under this treatment. I heard a rebel doctor on the steps below my room say thPrescott died under this treatment. I heard a rebel doctor on the steps below my room say that he wished he could take out the hearts of the d — d Yankees as easily as he could take off their leg." Some of the Southern gentlemen treated me very handsomely. Wade Hampton, who was opposed to my battery, came to see me and behaved like a generous enemy." It appears, as a part of the history of this rebellion, that General Ricketts was visited by his wife, who, having first heard that he was killed in battle, afterwards that he was alive but wounded, traveled under great difficulties