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Description A cabinet card showing John W. January, veteran of Co. B, 14th Illinois Cavalry Regiment, ca. 1890. His autobiography on verso: "I was born in Clinton county, Ohio...In the fall of 1862, the 14th Ill. Cavalry organized in Peoria, and I enlisted in Co. B...in July, 1864...I was taken by six rebel soldiers to Andersonville...I was stricken down by an attack of "Swamp" fever...I was a victim of gangrene...My feet and ankles 5 inches above the joints presented a livid and lifeless appearance, and soon the flesh began to slough off...I begged [the surgeon] to cut my feet off... I secured an old pocket knife and cut through the decaying flesh...At the close of the war I was taken by the rebs to our lines at Wilmington, N.C. in April 1865, and...learned that I had been reduced from 165 pounds to 45 pounds...Everyone of the Union Surgeons who saw me said I could not live; but contrary to this I did and improved... 12 years after my release my limbs had healed over..."
Date circa 1890
date QS:P,+1890-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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