1862 May 23

[from the diary of Milton W. Humphreys, future professor of Greek at the University of Virginia as copied and annotated by him in 1893]

May 23  On the 23rd was
fought the disastrous battle of Lewisburg.  In that battle my uncle
William Hefner Captain of the Scouts and guides, fell mortally
wounded. [He was hauled, needlessly, by the Federals many miles in an ambulance,
with his thigh-bone crushed, before receiving surgical attention.]

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