W. A. Thom Letter, 8/31/1863

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From “My Dear Brother:” A Confederate Chronicle, by Catherine Thom Bartlett, 1952, p. 106. ALS 8/31/1863 from Surg. W. A. Thom to “My dear Pembroke.”

            ...Your friend Capt. Leigh was killed at Gettysburg. My hospital is broken up & I am now in charge of a division at Jackson Hospital about two miles above the city - capacity about 600 patients.

            Write to me when you can, & believe me almost most affectionately your brother

                                                                                    W. A. Thom

 

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