Robert Cruikshank, letter
December 30, 1862
“There are several men of our Company here but I do not see them as they are in other wards or in tents. This building is four stories high and each story holds two hundred beds. I do not think the half are in this building so you can understand how a sick person can know nothing about another sick person outside of his ward. Each room is called a ward. He has a hard cough and is very thin and weak. you [sic] ask if I cannot get a furlough to go home. I am not sick enough for that as they do not give furloughs unless a soldier is going to die or is permanently disabled.”
Author
Name: Robert Cruikshank
Unit: 123rd Regiment New York Infantry, Co. H
Document Information
Type: Letter
Subject(s):
- Hospitals/Medical Care
Event Location: Harpers Ferry, Jefferson Co., WV
Document Origin: Harpers Ferry, Jefferson Co., WV
Source
Robert Cruikshank to Mary Cruikshank. December 30, 1862. Transcribed by Barry Cruikshank. Columbus, OH: ehistory at the Ohio State University. Obtained from http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/letters/cruikshank/index.cfm. Accessed on February 9, 2010.
