From a photograph taken at the Reunion in May, 1904. The only building now standing at La Grange
Identifier: withsabrescalpelwyet (find matches)
Title: With sabre and scalpel : the autobiography of a soldier and surgeon
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Wyeth, John A. (John Allan), 1845-1922
Subjects: Wyeth, John A. (John Allan), 1845-1922 Wyeth family Confederate States of America. Army. Morgan's Cavalry Division Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Cavalry, 4th. Company I Soldiers Surgeons Medicine Surgery American Civil War General Surgery
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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m in their struggle for the support of themselves andfamilies. True to their convictions of duty, they wereworthy sons of the land they loved. The story of theirwar experiences would fill a volume of thrilling narrative,and were it possible I would honor these pages with theroster of their names and the record of their heroism.1There were four, however, to whom I am closely boundby the ties of an affectionate friendship, which, commenc-ing in youth, ripened with the years of maturity and crys-tallized with age. They were of the flower of our country,typical of the spirit of the South. James Alston McKinstry, from Pickens County, was my 1 In 1904, forty-three years after we had disbanded, twenty-eight survivorsof the Corps held a reunion in the Old Brick Church at La Grange. Noother building had been spared. The college campus was a dense tangle ofbriers and saplings. From the mound and debris where my room had been,a sycamore-tree fully thirty feet high was growing. 166 5. asa pi H as
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WITH SABRE AND SCALPEL chum, and had the distinction of heading our class in mathe-matics. He enlisted as a private in Company D, Forty-second Alabama Infantry, and was in the assault on FortRobinet at Corinth, October 4, 1862. One hundred yardsin front of this fort was a dense abatis, and while workingtheir way through this tangle the command suffered greatloss from the direct fire in front and from two enfiladingbatteries. The survivors rushed across the open space andleaped into the ditch, where they were met with a showerof hand-grenades, some of which they picked up and hurledback into the fort, where they exploded. As they clamberedout of the ditch and up to the parapet they received a vol-ley which killed a comrade, who in falling threw his armsabout Jim, and he and the dead man rolled back into theditch. Regaining his footing and clearing the angle of abastion, just as he recognized a small group of Confederateswithin the fort he emptied his gun at a Federal soldier, themuzzle

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