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NNb es o_ anmommntonnmnarien ies reemammemim y 3 fia y 6: /* & immgergant mapr<as 2 T o B _ Tuesday, July 9,2013. RM The Kincardine News 3 . @ Beloved Kincardine doctor served in nightmare role at Gettysburg n 4sl s °_ _~--* & e o e i im inz e ces : 7 g \ PautCulliteon ________-- | ~menaround Wafer: "Lieut. -- infection set in followed by and all around & Smmflalhmm ; | Robert Evans rolled over in . death. A good surgeon likg their world had cllllia? l:alcllew' _ Any student of the Civil _ the agfpmes of death... with Secord could take a limb _ Endnote: July 4th,gWa{fer € | War&fifi'l-ws of | one of the men assisting we -- off in 10 minutes. But, ifthe marched with the 108th € | the Battle of Gettysburg. . moved the wounded man -- man was gut shot or chest in pursuit of Lee's retreat CAM mg'fimsmg s | a few yards in the rear. He wound, they were set aside Secord remained behind as C \ries of destiny and Rge of _ | expired on my knee in about _ to quietly J)'ass, on. It was a -- prisoner to care for 20,000 _ the bloodiest e %gge\ ient | _ twenty minutes. It was said .simple an brutal-grocess. wounded (6,000 Confed-- C Jeve'qi:ifggnf e Ameti-- _ J he was from Toronto. sn sur%eon with Secord _ erate, 14,000 Union). Both . ~can continent. Over 51,000 _ _ Covered in gore, uni-- at Plank Farm wrote: "The . returned home to Ontario, C o n mustmen in fbregadays _ form dripping sweat, Wafer surgeons (Iooked like) . practicing medicine for the (July "'l J remained on the line until butchers, with their blood ' remainder of their lives. € ago this summer. What -- | after sunset. A beautiful . spattered white shirts and _ _ PauT Guilliton is a con-- |is not known, is approxi-- _ ' n,wonh.t n1§_h't, About 10 navy trousers. To one side tributing writer for Esprit :€ / mately 3,000 Canadians -- R J o'clock all firing ceasing, lay a pile of amputated, De Co rps «Magazine walso fongfiéfiam@fly | , [ the rattle of firearms was mangled limbs, stacked like~ Oftagqwag and award wine € Union. Among them two. P sucgepded by sounds notso cordwood." ning documentary fil ~doctors from 'éma_riu, Dr. _ $ excmrzfi but more melan-- Elizabeth Plank, in Gre-- ; al%er This sto:y is e € Solomon Secord of Kincar-- [ choly, the familiar creaking figry Coco's "A Vast Sea Of | ggfoprarioy Y "Than & ~dine, 20th Georgia, grand of ambulances collecting sery'; recalled Confeder-- . qy tP t G P rl? id ,fiepheW'flf]!&']rgH'é'fbinb 2 [ the wounded. ate Medical Staff occupying e ul € ~ Laura Secord. And Dr. Fran-- _ P Pickett's Char%e «©' her home: part story running July -- |-- cis Wafer of Kingston, 108th _ [ _. Next afternoon, Ju ty.3rd "An ambulance arrived at -- OC50ber in Bsprit De Corps. & "New York. Their regiments _ [ Wafer found himself wit-- _ the farm house and without _ 4C 245 @documentary in \bately a mile away from _ [ 'ness to Pickett's Charge. any ceremony forced open 4CV€lopment on .Canadi-- & each other across the lines. _ | The climax of the bat-- ' the front door and car-- _ @"S in the CivilWar. | _'On the same day, same bat-- _ | tle. Turning Sfint of war. _ ried in a wounded officer Anyone who has civil & \ tle. Changing their lives for-- | Beginning ofthe endforthe and placed him in the War ancestor is free to con-- Rever ___ 2e . "als [ south. Treating wounded guest's room. "A Confeder-- _ tfact him at culliton@rog-- 4 ~____ CivilWar Medicine -- | _ on the Frey farm behind _ ate officer said;" Now don't . ers.com y hefoteGettynbu? $ 0 . _ B the union center. Wafer be friihtened € At the outbreak of wa se watched spellbound and this house rmanocoeiceimae oiz ce ol oo \ most doctors north and _ [ A photo shows Dr. Solomon Secord, late in life. With friend. horror struck as a rebel will beahos-- |@f -- ---- -------- w _Wfi T C \ south had never done an [ Seated Right. (Courtesy June Daniel of Kincardine) ~wave 12,000strong crossed pitalandyou | _ _ C > * -- P Camputation. Prof..,Cheryl [ (SUBMITTED) y & j a mile of field and broke can expect %'"fi'"* '"'35" :x . S ie | Wefis, editor of Wafer's, _. .-- _ E : into pieces against the many more | / -- | WE . T _ memoir; "A surgeon in dissection classes. As Wells _ and Wafer (Assistant Sur-- Union line in front of him. wounded | 3+ y ',"-. * CR | the Army of the Potomac"' noted. "Even though Wafer geon) had radically differ-- He could not believe what men here." c s es k -- 2 ( _ notes, "'l%le first time most had just one year under entexperiences at Gettys-- he saw. "The elite of the The 20th. [ > j . . =-- MA $ gzkegi_upen'swjlpel was on his belt at Queen's, he was -- burg. Confederacy... their hope Georgia lost _»..~ : m ~~~2K / \ the battlefield." American _ already more qualified than _ 'As Assistant Sur-%eon and pride, led by theirbest 137 of 350 | _ _ _ | ' k _ OA medical schools tradition-- mang practicing Ameri-- -- Wafer's role at Gettys urg lieutenant... Drifted bro-- '_men. By July | | k B f | ally did not use cadavers. can Doctors." Secord with was to stabilize wounded kenand hopelessacrossthe 3rd, 1542 | > ; n : \ Most states forbade it. Git-- _ six'yf.axs practice, was pure and get them to hospitals -- fields.-- arfiery thunderintfi wounded je= ' #--on $ ;L«i%#fighcflmwefief dis-- gol STear _ in the rear. At Gett¥sburg in their rear mingled wi flooded divi-- | ----||I C his e <=B \ section of cadavers imper-- _ Battlefield Medical _ _ this meant sWing close to * the cheers of the victors." sion hospi-- fi _--_-- PV : pe ,4,1 5' {fled both body and soul. _ Organization > the fighting. Wafer recalled,; Secord -- Death tals around | --} W ; _ ip, <~<* / J L%en-__m_,_;.'-'candoctmss«enfisted mas at'Gettysbm;ig "around 7am., the 108th at Plank Farm-- Plank Farm. || * > C $ _ _ § ,' eager for battlefield expe-- _ Both men arrived at Get-- was posted in support.of -- While Wafer exgeri- On. July 3rd _ [ s > --flil s I | | rience. As the saying goes; _ tysburg, early morning,]:.:lly a battery 1st US artillery _enced the horror of battle while Wafer. |" _' ww [F-- --~E "Be careful what you wish 2nd. Secord on the Confed-- commanded by Lieuten-- first hand, Surgeon Secord s at wit-- | _ w 2 2 J 'for". Amputation became -- erateright near Devil's Den. -- ant (George A) Woodruff._ at the 20th Georgia hospi-- ness to Pick-- f & 20 3 &5 2 the trademark operation of _ Wafer a little over a mile_ This battery was planted-- tal on Plank Farm, south-- ett's Charge, |" W MB ) fi £ ( \ the Civil War. About 75% of away on adogleg, near the. in a clump of trees about west of town, had his own --Secord. bstnarmmsrine 2 iC / 3 ?:, ) A| all operations were amputa-- Union center on Cemetery one quarter of a mile left front row seat to a night-- had been #* l Oe ~ +6 . "tions. Including over 15,000 Ridge. First day of battle, of cemetery hill." They mare. He was the man at amputat-- [ + l %m at Gettysburg, July 1st casualties had been -- did not have to wait long. the end of the line. Carry-- ing 24 hours evmmsmemiencds . Secord and Wafer as. ~§tz:fgedug 15,000. On July "About the same hour--a ~ing the weiPht of life and . straight. _ e _4 products of Canadian Med-- 2nd, the butchers bill added _ thin straggling line of men --death decisions that came Hearing only f "¢" _ 2iP . ical Schools were highly 20,000 more. _ in brown slowly advanced with triagle. Many he knew -- the sounds R > an~ *L _ l \sought by recruiters. Cana-- Both Confederate and throu?,:awheatfield, about personally. Secord had of the final € * _ .+ R © | dian schools patterned on _ Union medical sIstems 3/4 of a mile in our front. _ about a minute to decide a _ moments & -- 2 | |British and European sys-- def)loyednearly identical Thesewere the enemy skir-- -- man's fate. If hitinanarm _of Pick-- | , & ns «k l ~tems were at the forefront relay systems to recover mishes." Posey's Missis-- or leg, chances were good, ett's Charge. "_®_®®NAAPAAPPA EP m of medical science. Curric-- wounded. As part of these sippi Brigade whom had if amputation was within Without see-- l Painting Francis Wafer. (Courtesy Queen's _ \ ula included surgical and systems Secord(Surgeon) deployed snipers. Hitting 24--48 hours. Otherwise ing, Secord, [ University Archives, Kingston). (SUBMI/TTED) . [ / o