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03-06-2006, 07:50 PM

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Country doctor aids both sides

Dr. John Mutius Gaines, ANV

Quote:

A local newspaper noted that after Antietam every church, house, barn and even hog pens from Boonsboro to the Potomac River were crammed full of wounded soldiers, making southern Washington County "one vast hospital."

http://www.washtimes.com/civilwar/20060303-090940-6636r.htm

Terry

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