The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1867-05-29

, the battle of Prairie de Anne, April, '64,
and of Jenkins Ferry, on the goth Of
April, unscathed, it was reserved for the
rebel guerrilla and robber, Quantrel, TO
put his lte-strength to The lest. Brown,
with four comrades, was captured by
this human hyena, and Brown was lob.
bed OF his clothing and nearly nine
hundred dollars in money and watch.
The four were then tied to a tree, with
their hands raised above their heads, a
rope around their bodies, and another
around their feet. When thus secured,
the guerrillas then formed In platoon
of fifteen men, aud taking position at a
short distance, discharged their rifles and
revolvers at these defenseless men, COM
mencing at one and continuing to the
next. Brown was the last man left, and
mind must tail utterly to realize his feel
iDgs as he listened to the repeated vol.
leys, and heard the death groaus OF his
comrades. Awhile, these worse than
fiends glutted their venom on them.
Having reached him at last, he was
asked by the leader of the gang if he
had anything TO say. He replied that
they might shoot away. whereupon they
took their station. A noise, a flash, a
dropping head, and all was dark with
poor Brown.
Having finished their work, the de-
mons left the place. Strange to say,
those fifteen balls failed to do the work
ofthe guerrillas. Brown survived. He
was shot about ten o'clock in the fore -
noon, and was unconscious till near eve-
ming, when he aroused from his stupor,
suffering intense agony and pain, yet
bound fast to the tree and his dead COM
panions, For three days and nights he
renamed thus. Added to all this were
the pangs Of hunger and thirst, and the
fierce yells of a pack of hungry wolves.
He was, on the fourth day, discover
ed by a young lady named Mary Mills,
who at once brought him relief, He
was removed to Fort Scott, where his
wounds were examined and the fact dis.
closed that the entire Is balls had pass
ed into his body. One penetrated the
head over the right eye, destroying that
organ. and is pow lodged IN side the
skull another entered the right eye,
passed around the skull, and is now
lodged under the right ear another
entered the right temple, and was re-,
moved from under the lett eye =; another
entered the left side of the neck and
lodged near the windpipe, where 1t now
remains: another entered the body un-
der the right arm, passed through both
lobes Of the lungs and out under the left
arm two more were lodged under each
hip, where they now are, and breaking
the bones OF both five balls entered the
right thigh above the knee, shatterlng it
badly, and destroying almost the entire
bone t~ 20 balls entered the left thigh,
breaking the bone, and there remain -
Thus it will be seen that eighteen bul
let's and a fragment of shell had been
shot into his body, fourteen Of which are
still there, and he not twenty-three years
of age. His face is not so badly dis6g-
ured as to make him at all ugly, while
with the aid OF crutch and cane he is
able to go about, yet in crippled cons
dition. He is indeed the wreck of a
fne-looking, noble young man,an orna
ment of heroism to his race, and an
honor to his county and native State.-
He Is cheerful in conversation, and takes
his fate like philosopher. lie IS now
on visit here with his relatives. His
record seems almost too marvellous to
believe, yet there Is not aquestlon as to
the facts as stated above.