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60 THE LONE STAR DEFENDERS
both day and night, until it seemed sometimes as
if he could not make another round.
The day after we reached Carthage I was taken
down with a severe case of measles, and glided easily
into a case of typhoid fever. Dr. McDugald went
personally to find a home for me, and had me conveyed
to the residence of Mr. John J. Scott, a merchant
and farmer, where for seven weeks I wasted
away with the fever, during all of which time I was
as kindly and tenderly cared for by Mrs. Scott as
if I had been one of her family; and her little girl
Olympia, then about eleven years old, was as kind
and attentive to me as a little sister could have been.
My messmate and chum, Thomas J. Johnson, remained
with me to wait on me day and night during
the entire time, and Dr. McDugald, and also Dr.
Dan Shaw, of Rusk County, were unremitting in
their attention. A. B. Summers took charge of my
horse, and gave him better attention than he did his
own. Captain Taylor was also very low at the same
time, and was taken care of at the house of Colonel
Ward. The fever had left me and I had been able
to sit up in a rocking chair by the fire a little while
at a time for a few days, when General Fremont, who
had been placed in -command of the Federal Army in
Missouri, began a movement from Springfield in the
direction of Fayetteville, Ark., and we were suddenly
ordered away from Carthage. All the available
transportation had to be used to remove the sick, who
were taken to Scott's Mill. A buggy being procured
for Captain Taylor and myself, our horses
were hitched to it and, with the assistance of Tom
Johnson and John A. Boyd, we moved out, following
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Barron, S. B. The Lone Star defenders; a chronicle of the Third Texas cavalry, Ross brigade, book, 1908; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth27719/m1/67/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.