Private Wilbert Moody
 

Kentucky Post, Monday, 18 July 1904, page 8


Desperately wounded by a gunshot in the back, Wilbert Moody, a United States soldier, was brought Monday from Stearns Ky. to the barracks hospital at Ft Thomas. By orders of General Fred Grant, Assistant Surgeon Blanchard and Hospital Sergeant Alexander McDonald went to Stearns to care for the man on the trip.

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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 20 July 1904, page 5

Private Wilbert Moody, Twenty-fourth Infantry, the colored soldier in post hospital, wounded in a mix-up between white and colored persons at Stearns Ky. has a serious wound near the spinal column that also injured the hip bone. He has an even chance for recovery.

Moody's brother was killed in the affair and one white combatant so badly wounded in the neck that he will probably die.

 

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