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College Hospital Near Gettysburg Run July 15th 1863
Mrs P. Y. Patton
My Dear Mother It has been now
nearly two weeks since I have been stretched out on the bed of suffering. You will doubtless have heard before this reaches you that I was badly wounded and left in the hands of the enemy. My sufferings and hardships during about one week that I was kept out in the field hospital were very great. I recd a wound through the mouth fracturing the Jaw Bone badly on both sides. The Doctors seem to agree that the danger of losing my life is small. Th