The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-06-16

At the battle of Peach Orchard when Nc
| Clelan was making his change of base, Il
| Michigan infantry.man fell 10 the ground as
if shot stone dead, and was left lying in a
heap as the regiment changed position. The
! ball which hit him first struck the barrel OF
his gun, glanced and struck Il button of his
cost, 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 month
before the black and blue spot disap-
pearcd.
At Pitisburg Landing n member of the
| Twelfth Michigan Regiment of Infantry
| stopped to give II wounded man a drink from
| his canteen. While in the act bullet aimed
at his breast struck the cantcen, turned aside,
| passed through the body of n man and buried
itself in the leg of horse. Thecantcen was
Z! 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 comradca bullet struck the plug,
glanced off and buried itself in knapsack.-
| The tobacco was rolled up like ball of
shavings and carried Il hundred feet away
Directly in the line of the bullet was the head
of II lieutenant, and had not the bullet been
| AS it was he had both eyes filled with tobac-
co dust and had to be led to the rear
| AT Brandy Station one of Clusters troopers
had his left stirrup cut away by II grapcshot,
which passed between his leg and the horse,
| blistcring his skin as if red hot iron had
been used. He dismounted To ascertain the
| amount of his injuries, and rs he bent over
bullet knocked his hat off and killed his
horse
In the same fight was trooper who had
suffered several days with the toothachc. In
hand. to-hand fight he received pistol ball
in his right cheek. 1t knocked out his aching
double tooth and passed ont of The left.hand
corner of his mouth taking along n part of
an upper tooth. The JOY of being rid of the
| toothache was so great that the trooper could
not be made to 90 to she rear to have his
wound dressed.
An object, however tritlng, will turn the
bullet from its true course This was shown
one day at the Remount Camp in Pleasant
Valley They had II "bull.pen" there in
which about 800 bounty.jumpcrs and other
hard cases were under guard. Once in 4
while one of these men would make q break
| for liberty Every sentinel in position would
open fire, and it did not matter in the least if
| the man ran towards the crowded camp. On
this occasion the prisoner made for the camp,
and as many as six shots were fired at him
without effect. One of the bullets entered
| the tent of n captain of the Twelfth Pcnnsyl-
vania cavalry. He was lying down and the
course of the bullet would have buried it in
his chest. Fortunately for him candle by
which he was reading sat on n 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 being snuff
ed out. The ball was DETECTED and buried in
the pillow under the officers head, passed
out of that and through his tent into the one
behind it, passed between two men and
brought up against camp kettle.
There is in Detroit Mich, n 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 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
killed. While his wounds were being dress
ed an exploding shell almost buried him UNI
der an avalanche of dirt. In being removed
further to the rear runaway ambulance
horse carried him half mile and dumped
him out, and yet he is seemingly hale and
hearty and walks without a limp.