Introducing the newest members of Doctor Clift’s Hospital

| February 7, 2011

Around Christmas, a fellow reenactor gifted me these handsome creatures- leeches!  A teacher he was doing an interpretive class day with had purchased them for the class to learn about, but was just going to dispose of them.  Knowing someone who would surely love to have these fabulous creatures, he took them home and placed […]

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Fort Arrival

| August 28, 2009

We arrived at Fort Frederick late this past evening, barely being settled in the barracks there before a great rainstorm barraged us.  Today I will be attending to the men who are stationed here with their general maladies, as well as receiving the meager provisions for medicines sent from Annapolis towne.  The trip from Cumberland […]

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