The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-07-26
THE SOUTH KEaTuCKIka.
ADVERTISING RATE.
A Case Similar to Garaeldys.

SHoT THROUGH TIE LIVER hNBkID.
NEYs instances of persoils shot iku
President Garfield and afterwards re-
covering TO be stout and healtl,y men
are numerous, but we know Vt no
case more remarkable than tllat OF
Capt. John Ii. Shanks, President Of
the Farmers National Bank, OF this
place. Among the first who answered
to the call OF the Southern Conedcr-
acy from this section was this gcnilc-
man. lie entered the army as apri
vate and after serving as such Tor
some time, lie was, OIL account Of gall
liant aud heroic conduct, promoted To
the Captaincy OF Co. II. OF the coIlsol-
idated 9Th and 18th Regiments OF
Kentucky Cavalry. This Regiment
was under command Of Col. (aiter-
wards General) Adam Johnson. and
at the time that Captain Sharks was
wounded was resisting the advance Of
Colonel johnson, OF the Federal Ar
my, through Southwestern Kontrckv.
A severe little skirmish took place at
Grubbs' \ Roads, sonns twenty miles
from Hopkinsvillc.. III August, 1864,
and here Captain Shanks was shot in
the right side, the ballpassing through
his liver aud kidney and-lOdging in
the muscles of his back, q little to tho
right of the spinal column, from
whence it was,aiIerwards extracted.
Ills comrades offered 70 take him TO
the rear, but, feeling tl,at he was
bound 10 die, he told them 10 put him
in the shade and take care OF Them
selves. lie subsequently fell into the
hands OF the enemy, and, after a long
time, q surgeon came around who
gave his wound short glance and
went on 10 other snGerers, The Cnl,-
tain says ho saw BY his expression
that lie regarded his case M hopeless,
and remarked to him tRay he fnew ho
was going TO die and begged him TO
give him enough morphine to relieve
the severe pain which seemed 10 bc
in lis shoulder, so that his death
might be comparatively easy. The
surgeon did us rcqaested, and for
day or two the wopu.led man was
unconscious. lie was taken 10 Hop
kins, lille, and the Federals shortly nf-
terwards leaving the place, he was
put IN charge Of Drs. Gaines and Lew
il, local physicians, who attended him
until he was able 10 go about. They
beth agreed that The ball passed
through the liver and kidneys, IN
which opinion they we're backed ! y
DIR. Field, OF the U. s. Army, who re-
marked that no never saw n similarly
wounded man taken from battle
field aliye, DIR. Nick Gather, of IInr-
rodsburg, flso visited Captain Shanks
during his confinement with the
wound, and adds his testimony 10 that
OF the other Doctors. An abccss
formed OIL the liver which passed off
through the lung, and so great ut
times was the discharge that II would
almost entirely obstruct breathing
An abcess also formed on the kidney.
which passed off through the natural
channel. Three months after the ter
rible wound Captnin Shanks, having
gotten field exchange. returned to
his command at Paris, Tenn. and IN
one month thereafter again went OH
active duty, remaining with the army
till the close OF the war. lie then re-
turned TO Stanford, and, engaging in
business, has ever siucc lead an acliyo
life. combining very profitably tho
banking, mercantile and farming in
tcrests. SIandford journal.