From the Richmond Dispatch, 4/18/1862, p. 2, c. 4

Accident. – A lad named Ligon, son of Mr. Ligon, tobacconist, residing on Church Hill, had his right leg broke, on Wednesday evening, by his horse rearing up and falling over on him, at the corner of 21st and Main sts. – Our informant states that the doctors proceeded to set the wounded limb on the spot where the accident had occurred.

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