One of the authors who will be out at Fort Fisher this Saturday for the 149th anniversary commemoration of the battle, will be Ansley Wegner, author of "Phantom Pain: North Carolina's Artificial Limb Program for Confederate Veterans."
I am not aware of any other book written about artificial limbs after the war. But there sure was a dmand for them what with the wounding power of the new weapons.
From the Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum.
This museum has a photo of a Benjamin Jewett artificial leg, Patent #29494, dated 1860. Benjamin Jewett was from Gilford, New Hampshire. The museum also has his patent application.
--Old Secesh
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