Son of Gun
Legrand G. Capers Jr. This post doesn't really have anything to do with our family history, but I ran across a weird story I just had to share. It takes place during the Civil War and involves a soldier, a virgin, and a gunfire-induced pregnancy that resulted in a literal son of a gun. Legrand G. Capers Jr., a physician, served during that terrible conflict as a Confederate doctor, after helping form the Confederate Medical Department in Alabama. By 1863 he had become chief surgeon for a battalion of the 4th Georgia Volunteer Infantry. During his tenure he says he witnessed a medical miracle, which many years later he reported in the American Medical Weekly , published in Lexington, KY. Here's an abbreviated excerpt from that report: " On the 12th day of May, 1863, the battle of R. [1] was fought. [...] Our men were fighting nobly, but pressed by superior numbers, had gradually fallen back to within one hundred and fifty yards of the house. [2] " My position being nea...