Civil War Veteran Samuel Decker Posing With Prosthetic Arms He Designed Himself, ca. 1867
Samuel H. Decker (1813–1894) was a Union artilleryman during the American Civil War who became famous for designing his own highly functional prosthetic arms after a devastating combat injury.
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