A new book chronicles the wartime diaries and mis-adventures of Ephraim Miner, a Western Pennsylvania farmer boy whose eardrums were shattered and his feet frostbitten at the Battle of Fredericksburg. He spent more than 2 1/2 years languishing in the Armys ill-prepared health care and convalescent system, bouncing from Washington to Baltimore, New York, Indiana and Ohio. In the process, he crosses paths with Civil War nurse Walt Whitman (who w...
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