Home Bone Letter, August 1862 - page 1

Reference URL

Add tags

Comment

Rate

Save to favorites

To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed the entire object, paste this HTML in website

To link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed this page, paste this HTML in website

Bone Letter, August 1862

Bone Letter, August 1862 - page 1

Save page

1 of 4

View Description

View Image & Text

Download

small (250x250 max)

medium (500x500 max)

large ( > 500x500)

Full Resolution

Image
Text

Text Search...

Loading content ...

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

Submit

Cancel

...

Rating
Title	Bone Letter, August 1862
Subject	Correspondence Health Military life Civil War
Description	Camp near Washington, Arkansas. Dr. Bone to Minerva: he is tired from his long march from Tyler, health is good since leaving, requests a pair of shoes and more clothes and a small mattress and gloves, they are headed for Little Rock. Note: There are two letters, one dated August 24 and the other dateed August 26.
Date	August 1862
Collection	Bone Family Papers
Collection Identifer	A9, Box 1, Folder 28
Collection Link	http://library.sfasu.edu/findingaids/?p=collections/controlcard&id=17
Biographical Note	Robert Donnell Bone (1832-1892) was born in Wilson County, Tennessee, and came to Nacogdoches County in 1841 with his mother and stepfather. He and his brothers and sister moved in with his older sister when she married John Winstead Paine in 1846. After a serious illness of pneumonia, R. D. Bone rode horseback to Tennessee and entered the University at Nashville Medical School (which later became Vanderbilt University) in 1854 and returned to Douglass, Texas, to practice medicine after graduating in 1858. That same year he married Griselda Minerva Burk (1841-1912) who was also from Tennessee and had moved to Nacogdoches County, Texas, with her family in 1848. On November 25, 1861, Dr. Bone was appointed to serve as Assistant Surgeon of the 12th Texas Volunteer Infantry, Col. Overton Young's Regiment at Camp Hebert, Hempstead, Austin County, Texas. He felt it was his duty to serve the cause of the Confederacy and eagerly attended his post. As revealed in the following letters exchanged with his wife while on active duty in the Civil War, it soon became clear that he would have to contend with inadequate provisions, boring camp routine and confusing orders. "The Fever", dysentery, measles and exposure were Dr. Bone's patients' main medical problems; his regiment was not involved in any serious fighting. When he resigned his commission on March 7, 1863, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, he went back to Douglass, Texas, to practice medicine. Dr. Bone also bought cotton and cattle and took them to New Orleans each fall to be sold. Minerva was Post Mistress in Douglass from 1866-1867. Only six of the Bone's 12 children reached adulthood, and two of their sons graduated from the University at Nashville Medical School exactly 50 years after Dr. Bone did. At least eight of his descendants have followed him in serving the medical profession. (Aiken, Roy L. (Pete). "Bone Family." In Nacogdoches County Families, 172. Dallas, Tx.: Curtis Media Corporation, 1985.)
Scope and Content Note	Included in the collection of letters between Dr. Bone and Minerva are letters to the Bones from family and friends, report forms from the post office at Douglass, and two poems (probably written by Dr. Bone). Typescripts for most of the papers in the collection are in a booklet in Box 2. Several 19th century newspapers belonging to Dr. Bone are cataloged and shelved with the newspaper bundles.
Associated Dates	1860-1869
Type	Correspondence
Repository	East Texas Research Center
Repository Link	http://library.sfasu.edu/etrc/
Rights	This item may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. It is available for non-commercial research and education. For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the East Texas Research Center at asketrc@sfasu.edu.

Title	Bone Letter, August 1862 - page 1
Date	August 24, 1862
Collection Identifer	A9, Box 1, Folder 28
Repository	East Texas Research Center
Transcript	Camp near Washington Ark Aug 24th 1862 Dear Minerva: We have after a long and tedious march reached this place safely, we will remain here I suppose 3 or 4 days to have our mules shod and lay in Commissary supplies. The health of the Reg is good, in fact better than could be expected after such a terrible sickness as we had at Tyler, we will be sick here however if we stay in Camp any length of time. My bowls are hard to get right again after the flux, but I am well enough to be on duty all the time. Jim had one or two chills and to-day has the Diarrhae (sic) pretty bad but he will go and attends to his team, such resolution saves the life of many a man in the army. We have had no deaths since I overtook the Reg. One man shot himself accidentally in the wrist and we had to leave him on the road. I took 5 or six of the wrist bones out and dressed the wound before leaving him. Our Surgeon has not come up yet, so I have all on my shoulders yet. I have the gratification of saying that I sent more men able for duty from Tyler in our Reg than any of the Surgeons in the other Regiments constituting the Brigade and have had less sickness to contend against on the road

Find results with:

Searching collections:

Home Bone Letter, August 1862 - page 1

Bone Letter, August 1862

Object Description

Description

Tags

Comments

	All
	Pages Enter page numbers or page ranges separated by commas. For example: 1,3,5-12