The Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal, ed. by Julius F. Miner, vol. VIII (Buffalo: Warren, Johnson & Col, Printers, 1869), p. 26 states: "Dr. Asch ... did treat after Gettysburg, a Confederate soldier, Private Durbin, 9th Alabama regiment, with a gunshot fracture in the upper part of the shaft of the femur, by extracting some detached fragments of the bone, and the man recovered and was exchanged." In a separate publication, A Report on Excisions of Head of the Femur for Gunshot Injury, by George Alexander Otis (Government Printing Office, 1869), a description of the same case indicates the wound was caused by a grapeshot, and that Durbin was transferred to the General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania on 18 July (1863). The soldier in question is undoubtedly John G. Durbin of Company I, 9th Alabama, who was wounded on 2 or 3 July (both dates are reported and either is plausible) at Gettysburg. His initial surgeon was Dr. M. J. Asch, then Medical Director of the Artillery Reserve of the Army of the Potomac.