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      • A grisly affair
        03/27/08
        March 27, 1863: So you know that guy I brought up to the hospital, because he’d stepped on a nail? Turns out that incompetent doctor left it so long, that the wound festered, became gangrenous, and the whole foot had to be amputated!

        Mrs. Mason said she could hear the guy screaming in pai

      • I’m not trained for this sort of thing…
        03/25/08
        March 25, 1863: One of my worst nightmares was realized three days ago. Couldn’t write about it ‘til now, I was in such a state of shock and disgust.

        Had a lunatic in here – and I mean a verifiable insane person awaiting transfer to an asylum – that just went berserk in his cell after loc

      • Beware the Ides of March
        03/17/08
        March 17, 1863: Been a hellish week. Mrs. Mason says it had something to do with the Ides of March. I don’t know about that, but what I do know is that every single dark cell has been occupied for the last 4 or 5 days, and we’ve got at least a half dozen or so prisoners restricted to their cells.
      • The pea soup debate continues
        03/10/08
        March 10, 1863: Got a comment about the pea soup again yesterday – something about it being “unfit for human consumption”. I was just shocked that any of our inmates could use a word that long.

        Turns out he was some suit who’d been caught in a bawdy house. Was feeling real superior to eve

      • Suspicions and conspiracy theories
        03/03/08
        March 3, 1863: George says he thinks the surgeon was drunk the last time he went up to see him too. Apparently was slurring his words and everything. And according to Mrs. Mason – who’s up there more often than either of us dealing with the women – she’s never seen him sober. Was clucking like a mot

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