>>EXCERPT ONE— After the close of the war Captain Kimball was assigned to duty in the Freedmen's Bureau, and stationed in Virginia. He was shot at several times, and received Ku Klux letters ordering him to leave the country under pain of death. >>EXCERPT TWO — There were spiritual healers such as Lucy Ainsworth Cooke, better known as “Sleeping Lucy,” who diagnosed diseases and prescribed treatments while in a trance, remembering nothing upon waking. She practiced in Montpelier and Reading and was listed as a “clairvoyant physician” in directories.
