1864. Confederate Soldier Thomas Maynard. Gunshot wound of the back. Treated and recovered at Seldon's Battery under the care of Dr. B.B. Breed.
Carte de visite format courtesy of the Otis Archives; modified version available on Wikimedia Commons.
"Reading the death warrant" - Orders of death by hanging for Lincoln assassination conspirators being read before being carried out.
Sic semper sicariis, "thus always to assassins."
Manual on treating battlefield wounds for surgeons, Confederate States of America, 1863.