2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Lengthy, newsy 4 page beautifully penned letter by Army Surgeon W. S. Newton, to his wife from "Headquarters 2'nd Infantry Division Hospital, Army of West Virginia, Nov. 29, 1864." "…The only thing of interest now is something repugnant to every honorable medical man in mind. It is the arrest of one of the most prominent of our medical officers, the Surgeon-in-chief of our division. The Court to try the case convened today. J. M. Robinson…[who] has messed and slept with me since Sept…is the man. While at Winchester, after the battle 19 September he was in charge of all hospitals of our corps and while there, it seems he sold drugs and Hospital Stores drawn from the Medical purveyor to druggists of Winchester and committed other irregularities…he is on Gen. Duval's staff and when arrested wrote me a note asking me to call and see him as he was placed in close arrest…I did not go until I learned the charges. I visited him and told him he might prepare for the worst…told him the charges and allegations…he seemed careless and unmoved and did not undertake to explain himself in the least…I resolved to visit him no more…presume I shall be summoned to testify with a dozen other medical men…" Writes that provisions are overdue and "…we got only coffee and sugar on our provision return today…" Light aging; exc. +.
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