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Diary of Ezra Green, M.D. from November 1, 1777, to September 27, 1778
Ezra Green (1746–1847)
Named on the page for Battle of Bunker Hill.
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Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Project Gutenberg.
17 June 1775
Battle of Bunker Hill
In June, 1775, the Sunday after the battle of Bunker Hill, Dr. Ezra Green, in the capacity of surgeon, joined the American army, then under the command of Gen. Artemas Ward, and was stationed with Reed's New-Hampshire regiment on Winter Hill in Charlestown. Here he received the smallpox by inoculation, and was secluded in the hospital at Fresh Pond, Cambridge, for seventeen days, returning to his regiment in camp on Winter Hill the 20th of March, 1776.
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