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Stumpage Reports
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Tuesday, November 25, 2003 :::
No Wonder Your Head Hurts
At work I get to read and photocopy a lot of Confederate Pension Applications. They were forms the veterans of the Confederate Army had to fill out to get disability money. This was all taken care of by the states because the Federal Government certainly wasn't going to pay for the injuries the boys in grey got while trying to preserve slavery defend hearth and home secede from the Union.
I enjoy reading these things, looking for interesting anecdotes and seeing how people got wounded. I found a doozy today. The application is date July 4, 1910, so this poor guy had been walking around like this since 1863. This quote is from the part where the doctor had to describe "nature and extent of injuries":
"right eye shot out, Missile passing through temporal bone and orbit left eye near foramen and cutting the nose into just between the eyes. The subject suffers from a very malignant head trouble caused from this wound which is incurable."
Like I said, no wonder the guy had a headache.
Reading:
Take the Cannoli: Tales From the New World, by Sarah Vowell. (thanks Ann!)
Four Past Midnight, by Stephen King.
Quote of the Day:
A memorial was received, signed by many clergymen, desiring the Legislature to enact laws against prevailing iniquities. Among such laws, passed this session, were two against Adultery and Polygamy. Those guilty of the first crime, were to sit an hour on the gallows, with ropes about their necks, --- be severly whipt not above 40 stripes; and forever after wear a capital A, two inches long, cut out of cloth coloured differently from their clothes, and sewed on the arms, or back parts of their garments so as always to be seen when they were about. The other crime, stated with suitable exceptions, was punishable by death.
---- May 5th, 1694. The Annals of Salem, by Joseph B. Felt. Salem, 1827. Page 317.
::: posted by tom at 1:46 PM
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