And the Coins Driven into a Soldier’s Groin by a Bullet! “THIS POCKET BOOK … BEARS THE BLOOD STAINS FROM MY HANDS AFTER OPERATING (AMPUTATING ) THE ARM OF ONE OF THE 5 NY ZOUAVES (DURYEAS) THE SURGEON IN COMMAND RUFUS GILBERT NOT BEING ABOUT TO DO THE OPERATION” THE BLOODSTAINED WALLET “Surg. R.B. Bontecou … Continue reading Dr. Reed Bontecou’s Pocket Surgical Wallet, Bloodstained from the First Recorded Battlefield Amputation in the Civil War, on a Soldier of the 5th New York (Duryee Zouaves)