Excerpt from Cases of Chickamauga Typhoid Treated at the Maine General Hospital: A Paper Read Before the Maine Medical Association, June 7, 1899The object sought by this paper is to place on record the clinical experience derived from an association with certain cases of typhoid occurring among the men of our Maine Regi ment of Volunteers during August and September of 1898. Such experience from the management of any considerable num ber of th...
It begins with an explosion. In a small American town in the 1930s, Amos - a quiet giant of a man with a heroic spirit and a troubled past - is partly blinded in a locomotive accident. Aubrey, a sheltered boy of eleven whose patrician New England family employs Amos as a handyman, rushes to his aid.
