Josh Thompson

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In what would be the last fifty yards of Henry’s plight, he found the house of a Black woman and asked her to go get his wife. Henry’s son happened to be nearby, possibly searching for him, and he went looking for the same doctor Henry had visited for treatment. This time, the doctor answered. In a brutal irony, the reason the doctor had been absent before, Henry said, “was that he was off on this raid.”40 This realization compounded the moral injuries Henry suffered.
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction
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