The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-05-17
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Times Man can stand to be
Shot and still Live.

Shot and still Live.
The following statement Oft the pecu-
liar experiences in the war of John u.
Donovan, the Union candidate for Mar
shall of the city of Springfield, in the
late Ohio spring election, was first
published in the Daily Wisconsin at
Milwaukee. 1t has since been exten-
sively circulated, but will bear republic
cation, as it is record of adventures
which have fallen to the lot offew men,
and have been survived by fewer still.
Mr.. Donovan gave, at the period refer
red to, and at the request of his friends,
the following statement:
"Went into an engagement at Bull
Run, Sunday, July 81, 1861, at 10
o'clock a. M, or thereabouts. March
ed up hill after getting over a fence,
and on reaching nearly to the brow /
was struck by rifle ball in the calf of
my right leg, outside, passing through
to the skin on the other side. In the
cars on the way to Richmond the next
evening, a young man looking among
the wounded prisoners, wanted me to
let him take it out and keep the ball,
to which consented, and he cut it
out.
After being hit, as above, I stepped
back to the fence, sat down and bound
up my leg to keep it from bleeding.
then got up and loaded and fired from
where l stood. After firing three
times, another ball hit me in the left
knee, glancing up along my ankle
Joint. This ball remained about eight
weeks, when, my leg being badly fes
tered, the prison hospital surgeon lane
ed it one evening in the night the bal
worked down, 50 that ! got it out mex
morning.
After being hit the second time,
still kept loading and firing as fast as
could. In about ten minutes, as nea
as could judge, a third ball struck m
in the right side, which still remain
somewhere within me. This disable,
me somewhat for a short time, but
' again loaded and fired two or thre
times as well as l could, when 1 wa
struck in the right arm (while in tn
: act of firing, about midway betweel
my elbow and shoulder joint, the bal
running up toward my neck, whicl
ball was taken out about nine week
afterward, by the hospital surgeon a
Richmond, about half way from m.
shoulder Joint to my neck bone.
b fired my musket but once after this, q
the recoil of it hurt my shoulder SO
was unable to bearit.
I then left the fence to get behind
tree standing some $50 yards off, ant
picked up a revolver which lay on tn
ground, just after 1 left the fence, a
which time q bullet struck me on m,
right wrist, glancing off from the bone
l went little further toward the tree
when some twelve or fifteen Confeder
ate soldiers came out of the woods di
rectly toward me.
l fired the revolver at them thret
times, and just as fired the third bar
rel, bullet, fired by one of this com
pany, struck me just below my left eye
and going into my head. Iknew moth
ing more until about noon the mex
day (Monday.) When 1 came to,
found myself lying right where l fel
the day before. 1 tried to get up, bu
could not After this made severa
Intellectual attempts to crawl away t.
the shade of a tree, thesun shining very
hot. About p. m, a couple of sol
: diers came along, picked me up, carri
: ed me to the cars, and / was sent t.
Richmond, afterward sent to Alabama
and finally released on parole.
AS our citizens generally know, Mr.
Donovan carries the proofs of his ad
: ventures as here set forth, upon hi
: person to this day, and will do so fol
, the rest of his life.-9princJfGLd Repub
Licdn.