The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-05-28

BURLINGTON WI
Campaign Miscellany.:.
0NB OF THE "BULLY BOYS"
Coming out from church in the morning,
We found q line Of ambulances going down
the street. A driver told me that they had
just left hundred bully boys ut Judici-
jective coarse and vulgar one? Go any
where from Pleasant Hill-what sting and
satire there is in the namel-go anywhere
from the banks of the Red River-fOrever-
more coursing bloodily through our men,
cries = anywhere from Alexandria to
Spottsylvania,a and see how it is refined and
sanctified by the men who battle for US,
and you will be ready to do rs did-follow
the leading. went to the hospital. In
one of the wards found a man, or rather
he found me-for I marked him as a re-
served man, while I passed, who would
choose! to be left to his own thought. But
he called to mel say, you're = Yankee"
It seems that my dozen years of knocking
about the world have not worn OF all the
marks Of nativity yet; though had fiat
tered myself that was grown cosmo-
polite. SO told this soldier. II knew you
because I'm q Yankee too" was his an
swer-which ] pass over to students Of
mental organism. I found him a man from
Maine. He had bad flesh wound in one
arm and one leg was of just above the
knee. Don't mind the leg, but tell me
about Sheridan's raid" / read Secretary
Stanton's telegram relative to it. 20, tell
you, we'll fetch 'em yet! Old Lee II find
what it's to como to judgment, before he
gets through with it, l guess, in a way he
didn't look for. Go down by that room
aud read that to that man on the right. =
That was my dismissal, and went.
ANOTHER "BULLY BOY"
1.-THE man on the right" found to be
Boston notion, red OF hair, freckled Of face,
blue ofeye, square Of chin, broad OfnOstril,
In word, not q man with whom Araminta
wOnld fall in love ut first sight, not man
whom Susan Jane would idolize as the hero
Of \ romance. 'Mornin'," was his answer
to my salutatiOn-terse and pointed as pos
sible. What could say to one who cut
me off in that wayf While / stood an in
slant he made an inventory ofme-I felt he
was passing judgment ~ only man can
whose wits have been sharpened by long
experience at picket duty. Suddenly he
opened his large eyes to their widest, and
said Whats the news?' l saw that one
arm was gone above the elbow, and judg-
ed there was body wound somewhere,
and / knew by the workings of his fore.
head that he was in pain. own this ques-
morning papers for him. Then, as saw
he was in extreme pain, made q remark
about his arm, and asked If l could do any
thing for him. For answer got, 20 damn
the arm what's the difference If we only
lick the rebelsf" We had further talk,
and found him hero from head to foot
every quarter inch Of his five feet nine. His
lind youngster with u hole in his leg
he'sa kind of pugnosed boy, with white
hair, but he's got the grill know him,
and he came up in the ambulance with me;
please get him an orange or two If you find
him, and cheer him up-he's little down
in the gills this morning. but he'll be all
right IN day or two, for he will be where
pain aud death never come"
A SOLDIER CARRIES A CANNON BAIL IN
HIS HEAD FIVE MoNrHs.-But few works
on surgery contain q more interesting or
remarkable case than the following: Mat
thew Phenix, Co. b, Seth New York vol
unteers, was wounded. by a spent ball, in
the left eye, at Mine Run, on the 9th day
the Baptist Church Hospital, in this city.
on the 4th pay Of December, 1868, where his
wound was probed by DR.. c. p. Bigelow,
surgeon in charge, who failed to discover
the locality Of the ball. He remained in
the hospital some time, experiencing occa-
sional pain, but all the time his general
health was improving. The wound was
frequently probed by DIR. Bigelow, but
without any better result than at the first
trial. About the first Of March last, his
general health being very good, he was
granted q furlcugh, forty days. At the ex
piration OF that time he returned, and soon
began to complain quite frequently Of Sc
we're pain from his wound. The wound was
again probed, and some pieces Of dead bone
H..A~ I.i~ a~,A fhnxn 49, III.
mouth. On Saturday last, in examining
the wound again with = probe, DIR. Bigelow
discovered the locality OF the ball, which
seemed to be resting Immediately oyer the
pallet OF the mouth or throat Inserting
his ball torccps, he found he could not
grasp 1t, and, after repeated efforts, he con-
Guided to wait until Sunday morning, when
it was bis intention to separate the bone on
each side of the eye, by which means it was
Thought the bali could be easily taken out.
Early on Sunday morning a messenger
aroused the Doctor, aud informed him that
Phenix was choking TO death. He It once
repaired to the hospital, where he found
the patient in the condition stated. He soon
discovered that the bali had been moved
from it's original bed . little lower down.
and unless Immediately removed must pro-
duce sudocation. He inserted his forceps
and extracted it without the least di fticulty.
giving instant relief to his patient. The
ball was grape-shot (iron.) one and half
inches Ia diameter, and about four inches
in circumference, and weighs but fraction
less than half pound. To any bat sur
geon this story would seem s0lnew hat mi
raculous, but truth sometimes is even
stranger than fiction. Phenix il. still 1t
the above hospital, and from al. appear
anCes the carrying Of cannon ball in his
head for i've months has but eighty i'm
paired his health, and mot shortened his
days in the least--AIe<aSdsja Sensissl,
Nay & a .sel4 Hi ag,
A CnowD OF CRIAss.-Several. months
since quarrel arose between two neigh
bors residing near Jeffersonvilie. TuolOmne
county, California, named Isaac Damn
and - AcAllister, relative to . water
priviledge. NcAllistsr WAS shot and kill
cd. Considerable feeling was manifested
IT the time about the affair. Damn was in
dicted for murder, and at the trial his
young wife Sal with anxious, countenance
by his'side, aud two beautiful children
chung olose to the unhappy father, whom
the lawsa stern decree might tear from thea
forever On the opposite side of the court