A La Salle Surgeon

Wm. Logsdon, of Co. B, 13th Iowa, arrived here yesterday, on his way home to Jasper Co. He was severely wounded at the battle of Shiloh, and while at La Salle, yesterday, having occasion to have his hand dressed, a surgeon there did the job for the poor fellow, and took $1.25 from him for it – extremely good pay for a five minutes job, especially when we remember the sufferer was engaged in the service of his country, and would have to work two days to earn the amount extracted from him. But probably the surgeon was some one-horse doctor, whose eyes are not often blessed with the sight of a fee, and hence thought to make the most of the opportunity thus afforded.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 25, 1862, p. 1