During the first day's fighting at Gettysburg, a young lieutenant from a South Carolina regiment suffered a grape shot wound that mangled his right leg. The injured man, knowing it would be amputated, called for the doctor he trusted most to remove the limb—Dr. Thomas Evins. Here's the story.

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