Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30
ECCENTRICITIES OF BULLETS.

At the battle of Peach Orchard, when Nc
Clellan was making his change Of base, Mich
igan 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 barrel 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 pock-
ct. He was unconscious for three-quarters OF
an hour, and it was a full month before the
black and blue spot disappeared. At Pitts
burg Landing, a m1mber Of the Twelfth Mich
igan Regiment of Infantry stopped to give a
wounded man drink from his canteen. While
in the act, bullet, aimed at his breast, struck
the canteen, turned aside, passed through the
body of a man and buried itself in the leg Of a
horse. The canteen was split open, and drop
ped to the ground in halves.
At the second battle of Bull Run, as New
York infantryman was passing his plug of to-
bacco to a comrade, bullet struck the plug,
glanced off. and buried itself in a knapsack.
The tobacco was rolled up like ball of shay
ings, and carried a, hundred feet away. Di-
rectly in the line of the bullet was the head of
lieutenant, and had not the bullet been de.
fected, he would certainly have received it.
AS it was he had both eyes filled with tobacco
dust, and had to be led to the rear.
At Brandy Station one of Custer's troopers
had his left stirrup-strap cut away by grape
shot, which passed between his leg and the
horse, blistering his skin as if red-hot iron
had been used. He dismounted to ascertain
the extent of his injuries, and as he bent over,
a bullet knocked his hat off and killed his
horse In the same fight was trooper who
had suffered several days with toothache.
In a hand to hand fight he received pistol
ball in his right cheek. 1t knocked out his
aching double tooth, and passed out of the
left hand corner of his mouth, taking along a
part of an upper tooth. 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, however trifing, will turn bull
let from it's true course. This was shown one
day at the remount camp in Pleasant Valley.
They had ''bull-pen" there, in which about
five hundred bounty jumpers and other hard
cases were under guard. Once in while one
of these men would make break for liberty.
Every sentinel in position would open fire, and
it did not matter in the least if the man ran
toward 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 a cap
tain in the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
He was lying down, and the course of the bull
let would have buried itself in his chest. For.
tunately, candle by which he was reading sat
on stand between him and where the bullet
entered. This was struck and out square in
two, and the lighted end dropped to the floor
without being snuffed out. The ball was de-
fected and buried In the pillow under the Off
GERS 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, Michigan, a man who
was wounded five times in less than ten min.