The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-10
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At the battle Of Peach Orchard, when Mo
clellan vas making his change OF base. a
Michigan lnfantryman fell to the ground as
II shot dead, aud was left lying in I heap, as
the regiment changed position. r.
The ball which hit him, first struck the
barrel OF his gun, glanced, and struck a button
off his coat, tore the watch out Of his vest
pocket, and then struck the man just over the
heart, and was stopped there by . song book
in his SHIRT pocket. He was unconscious for
three quarters of an hour, and it was full q
month before the black aud blu spot disap.
peared from his breast.
AT Pit.sburg Landing a member OF the
Twelfth Michigan Infantry stopped town to
give a woulds ulan u drink from his canteen.
While in this act u bullet aimed at his breast
struck the canteer, turned aside, passed
through the body of = man and buried Itself
in the ley of a horse. The canteen was split
open, and dropped to the ground in halves.
At the second battle Of Bull Run, as a New
York infantry man was passing his plug Of
tobacco to a coniraue, q bullet struck the plug,
and glanced of, aud buried itself in a KNAPP
sack. The tobacco was rolled up like a ball
of ~shaviuys and carried a hundred feet away.
Directly in line of the ball was the head of q
lieutenant, and had not the bullet been
DETECTED he would have received it. As it
was he had both eyes filled with tobacco dust,
and he had to be IL to the rear.
At brandy Station one OF Clusters troopers
had his left stIrrup-strap cut away by q grape
shot, which passed between this leg and the
horse, blistering his skin as it a red hot iron
had been used. He dismounted to ascertain
the nature OF his injury. and as he bent over
a bullet knocked his hat off and killed his
horse.
In the same fight was a trooper who had
suffered for several days with to0thache. In
a hand-to-hand fight he received o pist0l-ball
in the right cheek. The bullet knocked out
his aching doublet tooth, and passed out of the
left-haud corner of his mouth. taking part Of
an upper tooth along. The joy OF being rid
ofthe tooth ache was so great that the trooper
could not be made to 60 to the rear to have
his wound dressed.
An object, no matter how trifing will turn
a bullet from its true course. This was shown
one day at the remount camp in Pleasant
Valley. They had = ''bullpeh" there in which
about five hundred bounty Jumpers and other
hard cases were under guard. Once in a
while one of these men would make a break
for Liberty. Every sentinel in position would
rpe fire, and it did not matter in the least if
the man ran oward the crowded camp. On
this occasion q prisoner made for the camp,
and as many as six shots were fired at him
without effect.
ouS OI JHc DullctS 0ilCICO tiiC LCiib VI ii
captain in the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
He was lying down and the course of the bull
let would have buried 1t in his chest.
Fortunately for him the candle by which he
was reading sat upon a stand between HIM
and where the bullet entered. This was
struck and cut square in two, aid the lighted
| end dropped to the floor without being snuffed
out. The ball was defected and struck under
the captains head, passed out of that and
through his tent, entered one behind it,
passed between two men and finally brought
up against a camp kettle.
There is in Detroit to-day a man who was
wounded five times in less than ten minutes,
at Fair Oaks. The first bullet entered his
left arm; the second gave him a scalp wound;
the third hit him in the foot the fourth bur-
led itself in his shoulder; the fifth entered
his right leg.
While he was being carried to the rear the
first two men who took him were shot dead.
While his wounds were being dressed an ex-
ploding shell almost buried him under an
avalanche of dirt. In being removed further
to the rear a runaway ambu lance horse car
ried him half a mile and dumped him out,
and yet to-day he is seemingly hale and hear.
tv and walks without a limp. --Detr0n FREQ
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