Silas Weir Mitchell

Issue The Civil War

The Case of George Dedlow

An absurdist short story about a Union doctor—which many Atlantic readers erroneously believed at the time to be nonfiction.

The Case of George Dedlow

The bizarre Civil War-era short story by a physician, which many readers erroneously mistook for fact

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Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma

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