The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-15
MARROW ESCAPES.

At the battle of Peach Orchard, when Nc
Clellan was making his change of base, q
Michigan infantryman fell to the ground as
if shot stone dead, and was left lying in
heap as the regiment changed position.
The ball which hit him first struck the bar
rel of his gun, glanced and struck 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 uncon-
scious for three-quarters of an hour, aud it
was a full month before the black and blue
spot disappeared.
At Pittsburg Landing member of the
Twelfth Michigan Infantry stopped down to
give wounded man a drink from his can
teen. While in this act, bullet aimed at
his breast struck the canteen, turned aside,
passed through the body of man, and bur-
led itself in the leg of a horse. The canteen
was split open and dropped to the ground in
halves. -l i-
At the second battle of Bull Run, as
of tobacco to a comrade, bullet struck the
plug and glanced off and buried itself in q
knapsack. The tobacco was rolled up like
ball of shavings and carried hundred feet
away. Directly in the line of the ball was
the head of q lieutenant, and had the bullet
not been DETECTED he would certainly have
received it. AS it was, he had both eyes
filed with tobacco dust and had to be led to
the rear.
At Brandy Station one of Clusters troop
ers had his left stirrup- strap cut away by a
grapeshot, which passed between his leg and
the horse, blistering his skin as if red-hot
iron had been used. He dismounted to as
certain the nature of his injury, and as he
bent over bullet knocked his hat off and
killed his horse. In the same fight was
toothache. In hand to-hand fight he re-
ceived pistol ball in the right cheek. It
knocked out his aching double tooth and
passed out of the left-hand corner of his
mouth, taking part of an upper tooth along.
The Joy of being rid of the toothache 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 triAing, will
turn a bullet from its course. This was
shown one day at the remount camp in
Pleasant Valley. They had ''bull-p pen
there, in which about five hundred bounty
jumpers and other hard cases we're under
guard. Once in awhile one of these men
would make a break for liberty. Every SEN
tinel in position would open fire, and it did
not matter in the least if the man ran to-
ward the crowded camp. On this occasion
prisoner made for the camp, and as many
as six shots were fired at him, without ef-
feet One of the bullets entered the tent of
captain in the Twelfth Pennsylvania cav
airy. He was lying down, and the course
of the bullet would have buried it in his
chest. Fortunately for him, the candle by
which he was reading set on stand between
him and where the bullet entered This
was struck and cut square in two, and the
lighted end dropped to the floor without be-
ing snuffed out. The ball was detected and
buried itself in the pillow under the officers
Lead, passed out of that and through his
tent, entered one behind it, passed between
two men, and brought up against camp
kettle.-DetrOit Free Press.