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and learning that he was followed, the fugitive returned. Hearing, however, that his inhuman master had threatened to whip him unmercifully, and yielding to the advice of others, he again fled and endeavored to make his way to the Federal army at Knoxville. This was in the month of December, in the bitterest cold weather. Owing to the exposure, his feet became frozen, and and he was found by the way and taken to Knoxville; laid on a table in the Court House, and his feet amputated by two physicians, named Williams, & Joseph Clark, who, after performing the operation, left him on the table, from which he was carried away and taken care of by his friends. Gammon subsequently sent him to Minerva Dangerfield, with instructions to take care of him, and she did so for fifteen or eighteen months. 

Mr. Griffith says that he does not believe the amputation was necessary, and thinks that Minerva Dangerfield should have her pay for the care of the sufferer, out of Gammon's estate.