medicine-child

Updated: July 19, 2026

I suffered no incivility during the overland march. My status became that of an attendant on the great manito's medicine-child. Patricia continued in a dazed state of mind, but after two days of arduous travel I detected her weeping. Lost Sister enigmatically warned: "She is another woman. She is more like the woman she once was. She must keep close to her manito."

Hugh Pendexter - A Virginia Scout