Letters sent to Governor Forney Johnston by C. J. Hickman, a patient desiring removal from the Alabama Insane Hospital in Tuscaloosa.
Hickman, a Civil War veteran, feels his continued confinement is unjust: "I was perswaded by my best friends to come here & stay only two or three weeks and because I cant change my nature and get religion & quit cursing and humble my self like a cowardly cur dog and prais this hell hol...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | Hickman, a Civil War veteran, feels his continued confinement is unjust: "I was perswaded by my best friends to come here & stay only two or three weeks and because I cant change my nature and get religion & quit cursing and humble my self like a cowardly cur dog and prais this hell hole and the attendants I am keep here for fear of my tounge." He also complains about conditions at the hospital: " You and all visitors are only allowed to see the [Boquett] part But Oh god follow us to the large dining room. My Father in Elbert Co Georgia never fed his Slaves half so badly and he owned over one hundred. Gove we cant live on the nice white floor which the poor crazy patients are at work on nearly all the time about fifteen to each ward and the balance of the crazy ones at work in the field corn untill twelve oclock and at it again by 2 in the evng this hot weather, and the worst Grub I ever beheld in all my born days." |
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