![]() It may take as long as 6 months to a year before your knee is ready for hard physical work or certain sports. But it will be several months before you have complete use of your knee. You may be able to return to most of your regular activities within a few weeks. You should soon start seeing improvement in your knee. You can put ice on the area to reduce swelling. Your ankle and shin may be bruised or swollen. And you may have numbness around the cut (incision) on your knee. In some cases, the graft comes from a donor. In most cases, the graft is a tendon taken from your own knee or hamstring. Norton, 2001), 380.Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery replaces the damaged ligament with a new ligament called a graft. ![]() Gienapp, ed., The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection (New York: W. P.S.- Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. I would rather stay here and starve and die, if it come to that, than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. Please send the money by Adams Express, in care of V. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor’s visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. At $25 a month for me, and $2 a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to $11,680. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again.Īs to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Sometimes we overhear others saying, “Them colored people were slaves” down in Tennessee. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. ![]() Anderson), and the children, Milly, Jane, and Grundy, go to school and are learning well. I get $25 a month, with victuals and clothing have a comfortable home for Mandy (the folks call her Mrs. I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. ![]() It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. ![]()
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