Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
4 Bullet in His Brain.

THE LandisC arruth shooting affair
has been the means Of bringing to light
few remarkable cases of shooting and
remarkable recovery of persons whose
brains have been perforated by pistol
or rife balls
William V Robinson is aged thirty
three years, and IS bother by profess
sion. In 1861 Mr.. Robinson enlisted in
Company K Capt Timothy Moore, of
Camden) Sixth Regiment, New Jersey Vol
unteers, which regiment was attached to
Hooker's division of the Third Army
Corps. He participated in every battle
fought by the Army of the Potomac ex-
cept Antietam and Burnside's mud cam
paign against Fredericksburg, and was
in over thirty general engagements, be-
sides number of minor ones, and was
three times badly wounded. Robinson
received his first wound at the battle of
Williamsburg being severely wounded,
and it was supposed for long time fatal
ly wounded, in the thigh. His second
wound was received in the battle known
as the second Bull Run. The third
wound-in the muscles Of the left arm
was received during Gen. Grants sue
cession of battles before Petersburg.
The second wound was received on
Aug. 30, 1862. The Sixth Regiment, to
which Robinson was attached, was sup
porting the Fifth Regiment, New Jersey
Volunteers, which had been deployed as
skirmishers and was charging on the en-
envy. Of the shooting Robinson recol-
lects that sharp pain darted through
his ear and into his head, and then he
remembered nothing more. He was left
for dead, and remained on the battlefield
at least an hour, but was finally removed
and taken to the division hospital, suffer
ing untold agony from a musket ball
wound. The bali, either mimic or a
musket- ball, entered the left ear, cutting
off the pendulous lobe and taking an up
ward course through the brain, and
lodged near the upper part of the occipi-
tai bone. The wound bled profuse-
ly, and semi-consciousness returned to
him. DR.. Wiley, now at Cape May,
who was the division hospital sur
geOn at the time, probed for the
ball, but was unable to reach it.
Robinson convalesced rapidly, and in
short time was able to bear transporta-
ton to the United States general hos
pital at Chester, Pa, where the wound
was again probed in vain for the ball.
In three months time Robinson was re-
turned to his regiment and performed
faithful service with it, for which he
was promoted to a Sergeantcy, and re-
NAMED with it until the close of the war.
In conversation with our representa-
tive Robinson informed him he was IN
able to work in the sun, and when he at
tempts to his head becomes almost i'm
mediately muddled and spins round like
a top, while sharp pains dart from his
left eye to the seat of the bullet. "But
how do you know the bullet is in your
brain 90 remarked the interviewer "Be-
cause I feel it," was the reply Although
shot directly through the ear, his hear
ing is unimpaired, and is as acute and
sensitive to sound as anyone's ear His
intellect and memory are good and but
rarely is he troubled about the head.''
-Bridget0n IN. j. Daily, Nay l.
FoRTY-oNE years ago a fair bride in
Fulton County, N. Y, received as we'd
ding present a large and delicious cheese.
Since then the bride and all who attend
ed the wedding, except the groom, have
died, and one day last week, on the
forty-frst anniversary of his marriage,
the lonely old man, his banquet hall de-
serted, for the first time cut and tasted
the lonely old cheese-or, stating the clr-
cumstances in language more lnteiliglble
to Western readers, his friends having all
" taken a rest" the old gent concluded
that he would take down the wedding
relic and "cheese it."-Chicago Journal.