An Eye to Business — 395
The Southerners are, of course, not nearly so commercial a race as the Yankees, but still they are much given to “trading” amongst each other. At an hospital in Gettysburg, an artilleryman, whose leg was to be taken off, no sooner knew that the amputation was decided upon by the doctors, than he turned to another wounded man in the next bed, and, before the operation was performed, had “traded” the boot, which was henceforth to be of no use to him.