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Title: With sabre and scalpel : the autobiography of a soldier and surgeon
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Wyeth, John A. (John Allan), 1845-1922
Subjects: Wyeth, John A. (John Allan), 1845-1922 Wyeth family Confederate States of America. Army. Morgan's Cavalry Division Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Cavalry, 4th. Company I Soldiers Surgeons Medicine Surgery American Civil War General Surgery
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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e superstitiousconsidered it to be the forerunner of some great disaster.The wise men of the country should have known then thatthe disaster had already arrived. By March and April, 1861, there was a call for volunteers,and a very considerable number of the cadets resigned andreturned to their homes in order to enlist in the first com-panies which marched to the front. By the time the firstsession ended with the commencement on the 4th and 5thof July, 1861, fully one-fourth of the corps had enlisted.Among the first to leave were Fielding Bradford, Bob Coles,and Jimmy Brandon, all of whom had volunteered withone of the Huntsville companies which made part of thefamous Fourth Alabama Infantry. Bradford was killed,and Jimmy was wounded at the Battle of Bull Run, in July,1861. Soon after this Brandon came home on furloughand visited his college-mates at La Grange. His presenceexcited the envy of every lad who had not been allowed togo home to volunteer. To have been in a great battle, 164
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WITH SABRE AND SCALPEL wounded and furloughed, made Jimmy a hero, and all of uswould probably have given our hopes of immortality to havebeen in his place. This gallant, handsome lad joined myregiment in 1863, and was killed at Big Shanty in 1864. When, early in 1862, northern Alabama became the sceneof active hostilities the college closed its doors and re-mained unoccupied until April 28, 1863, when it was de-stroyed by fire by Federal cavalry under the command ofColonel Florence M. Cornyn. The destruction of this in-stitution of learning was not only not a military necessity,but was in disobedience of the orders of General Grenville M.Dodge, in command of this expedition. In his official report,on page 250 of Volume XXIII, Part I, Official Reports, hesays: They were guilty of but one disobedience of orders, inburning some houses between Town Creek and Tuscumbia,on discovery of which I issued orders to shoot any mandetected in the act. This officer, now, in 1914, a residentof Counci

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