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WYETH, JOHN ALLAN. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon. New York: Harper & Bros, 1914. 1st ed. 8vo. [20], 535 pp. Illustrated. Orig. cloth. $125.00

 

Wyeth joined the Confederate army at age 17 and became a medical doctor in 1869.  In the 1870s he devised a number of new surgical procedures.  He expresses the Southern view of John Brown, devoting about half the book to his war experiences.