Charles Ross searching for soldiers he knew at Andersonville Prison during the Civil War
National Tribune (Washington, DC)
December 8, 1892
Charles Ross, Co. H, 35th U. S. C. T., Bren-
ham, Texas, wants the name of the Surgeon or
Steward who assisted Dr. Warren to amputate
the arm of a rebel soldier of Co. G. 4th Ga. Re-
serve Guards, at Andersonville, Ga., in the
latter part of the Summer of 1864. Also the
addresses of the two paroled Union prison-
ers who attended in the hospital at Anderson-
ville, who went bathing with the writer. He
thinks they belonged to the navy, and one was
called "Scotty" and the other "Shakie." If
living, they will remember the spring-board
they had there at the swimming-hole below the
prison-pen.
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