“…stabbed through the lung…”

Kelsey, M., & Floyd, N. G. P. G. G. (1900). Miscellaneous Alabama Newspaper Abstracts, Volume 2. Westminister MD: Heritage Book, p. 202.

“…wild shootings…”

Kelsey, M., & Floyd, N. G. P. G. G. (1900). Miscellaneous Alabama Newspaper Abstracts, Volume 2. Westminister MD: Heritage Book, pp. 196, 198.

“…a number of Sims’s friends had died…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 263-64.

“…newspapers were awash with advertisements…”

Some Doctors, Drugs, Druggists and Dentists of Montgomery, 1820-1920, Lela Irwin Legare, 1961, pp. 145, 148-49, an unpublished book of medical history in Alabama, held at the UAB Archives, University of Alabama, Birmingham, in Birmingham, Alabama.

“…stuffed into Montgomery’s jails…”

Kelsey, M., & Floyd, N. G. P. G. G. (1900). Miscellaneous Alabama Newspaper Abstracts, Volume 2. Westminister MD: Heritage Book, p. 171.

“…the fears of his youth…”

See “…left him with a fear…,” above.

“…fishing as a young boy…”

Sims, J. M., & New York Academy of Medicine. (1858). Silver sutures in surgery. New York: S.S. & W. Wood, p. 57.

“…a divine mind working through him.”

Sims, J. M., & New York Academy of Medicine. (1858). Silver sutures in surgery. New York: S.S. & W. Wood, pp. 54-55.

“Running a bit of shot…”

See “…his inability to reach deep enough inside…,” above.

“…he roused Theresa to share the joy…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 243-44.