Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1915 — DOCTOR WRONG BY 54 YEARS [ARTICLE]

DOCTOR WRONG BY 54 YEARS

War Veteran, Tagged “Mortally Wounded” Recently Dies "Natural” Death” for All That

Fulton, Mo. —Left on the battlefield dying ~dth the surgeon’s notation, “mortally wounded,” written after his name, only to live fifty-four years and die a natural death, was the experience ot the late John W. Davis, a Confederate veteran of Fulton. A letter received here from Joseph A. Mudd, another Confederate veteran of Hyattsville, Md., tells the story as follows: “I have just seen mention of the death in Fulton of John W. Davis. He was a member of a grand company of brave boys, commanded by Capt. D. H. Mclntyre, afterward at-torney-general of Missouri —Company A, Burbridge’s regiment. Ours was Company B, and we stood side by side in battle. Comrade Davis was just my age. “At Wilson’s Creek, nearly fifty-four years ago, I saw him shot, so badly hurt that the surgeon wrote ‘mortally wounded’ after his name.”