 Nearly 30% of his regiment were killed or wounded in the battle.The Army surgeon recommended the leg be amputated.Silas may have used a gold coin sewn into his jacket for emergencies to buy a crate of whiskey to bribe the surgeon to let him remove Andrew from the military hospital to be treated elsewhere, and he smuggled Andrew onto a boxcar to Atlanta where they met Andrew's uncle, Kyle Chandler, who brought them back to their home.