Title: Certificate of disability for leave of absence for Major Thomas Sparrow

Identifier: 0001-b1-fc   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/24028)

Description: Certificate of disability for leave of absence granted by S. S. Satchwell, Senior Surgeon, of the Medical Examining Board, General Hospital, No. 2, Wilson, N.C., for Major Thomas Sparrow for sixty days. Sparrow is declared unfit for duty because of gastroenteritis with excessive debility and great emaciation. From the papers of Thomas Sparrow (1819-1884), a lawyer from Washington, N.C. who fought in the Civil War and later represented Beaufort County in the North Carolina General Assembly.