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- Feb 5, 2017
This is from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Private Charles Johnson was shot in the hip during the Battle of Antietam. The following day, he wrote this in his diary:
“Slept a little last night, and was troubled by a dream in which demons, rattlesnakes, Hell, brimstone, cannon-balls, and railroad iron, bayonets and pitchforks, powder and smoke were all conglomerated into one shapeless, endless whirl, with me in the midst, though suffering no particular harm.”
Image credit:
Self-portrait of Charles Johnson
Private Charles Johnson was shot in the hip during the Battle of Antietam. The following day, he wrote this in his diary:
“Slept a little last night, and was troubled by a dream in which demons, rattlesnakes, Hell, brimstone, cannon-balls, and railroad iron, bayonets and pitchforks, powder and smoke were all conglomerated into one shapeless, endless whirl, with me in the midst, though suffering no particular harm.”
Image credit:
Self-portrait of Charles Johnson