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Iowa Governor and Adjutant General correspondence, 1862-1865

1865-06-21 Page 2

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also at the Battles of Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge and Ringold Ga at the last named place I was wounded, and sent from then to the Hospital at Nashville, from which I was transfered to the invalid corps, now called the V.R.C. I was wounded through the Penis, and left thigh, and through the carelessness of the doctor I was under, I am a cripple for life. Now when I urinate the water passes out the left side of my Penis, close to my body, and the wound has healed up so close that the smallest probe cannot be introduced consequently causing me a great deal of trouble
 
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