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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Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/26662 |
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