JPK Huson 1863
Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2012
- Location
- Central Pennsylvania
Sophronia Bucklin, nurse, remembers marches to ' The Dead House ' extremely well, sharing this in her post-war memoirs. One man destined for one of those stretchers related his awfully narrow escape.
Anyone familiar with" The Cremation of Sam McGee "? "There are strange things done in the midnight sun. By the men who moil for gold " Grew up with Robert Service- Dad's favorite ( along with " Ice Worm Cocktail " ), read to us in character. When Sam dies in the Yukon ' moiling ' for gold his buddy determines a good cremation was the best send-off. The crematory bonfire revives an undead, frozen Sam, death is foiled.
Sophronia Bucklin ran into her Sam- a West Virginian named Charley, during her astonishing service as one of Dix's nurses. She saw ' war ' at it's most stark, tragic and brutal, there's little likelihood this is apocryphal. From her narrative on her service, " In Hospital and Camp ", a must read anyway.
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You hope he lived a very long life married to sweet woman, despite the damage to his nervous system. Can you imagine " YOU'RE FREE, CHARLEY! ".