1862 April 23 Lewisburg, Va.

[from the diary of future University of Virginia professor Milton W. Humphreys, of King's Artillery as copied and annotated by him in 1893]

I entered the  hospital in Lewisburg, as a
convalescent, and was put to nursing several very sick men,--the hardest and
most disagreeable work that can well be found. [I had one man to  nurse
who was not half so sick as I was].  I remained in the hospital until Ap
28

This hospital was an old hotel on the right as you go west along Main
Street, about the lowest part of the street.

One of the men I nursed was Price Glover, who had pneumonia.  He
belonged to Bryan's Battery.  He recovered and survived the war.  All
this time I could speak only in a whisper.  When informed that I
was to be retained as a nurse, I communicated with Bryan at once
and urged him to have me discharged from the hospital; so that
the hospital authorities were not responsible for my premature release,
though they were certainly were for the fact that I was required to perform
labor that rendered my convalescence slow if not impossible.


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