Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-18
r,,LED FULL OF LEAD.
IAN With 1O1 Bullet Wounds
- Told by u Southerner.


story Told by Southerncr'
From the CAsaago HeralG.
~, that Graham, The man who went
.S the rapids of Niagara in barrel,
17,7,, 20 show himself in dime NIL
',Sa present week y said Souther
., ,be fremont House Last night as he
" e., mis- feet and leaned back in ore Of
ohis office chairs. Nv do you know"
aontinued. that there is curiosity
.,,n south that beats ell these barrel
and armless acrobats and ire-eaters!
g a little old man now, but if these
IN, managers were to take him up
,nov would make mint of money.
G,sname is Harrison II. Oliver, OF Boil
m Ball county, Texas, and he Is the
~n5tremarAabe repository OF cold lead IN
mis- country to-day. IL may seem strange
-1S Son Young man, when L tell you that
o! w. reoelyed no less than one hundred
t eIana N ounds, and sixty of the bullets,
Wv ,;rg in size IRON a buckshOt TO an
- 6aI. still remain in his body. He
49, Il wears old wnen he received his first
ra,nGs. At that time he was living on
w. nlantatlOn of his mother, near Con-
W. ia IN Red River Parish, Louisiana.
liz was out hunting with hall brother
Hr cousin, forget which. but at any rate
thew became separated. Whlle OllVer
No: moving though the bushes his
brotber thought him deer and fired both
t,aJraIs OF mis- shotgun at him. Thirty
sevsu snot lodged in mis- body, and the boy
isyfor months at the point of death. Only
thirteen of the missiles were removed.
When the war broke out young Ollver
;oined the Confederate army in Septem-
Sar 1861, being member of Company q.
FttDteenth Louisiana Volunteers. The
trst engagement IN which the regiment
was actively engaged was at Pittsburg
Landing, where it encountered leaden
storm from the decks OF the gunbOats
Lexington and E. o. Tyler. The tight
lasted four hours. Oliver received a
severe wound in the lett shoulder from
niece of conical shell. Before the terri
bic cut had time to heal Oliver went with
his regiment in tue battle of Shiloh. 1t
was during this engagement that he re-
celyed what we're supposed to be mortal
wounds. When the gallant Beauregard
led he Eighteenth Louisiana into that
deadly storm ofsh0t and she'll, Oliver was
one Of the first to fall, with blood gushing
from nis mouth. His name appeared in
The list of the slain, and for more than
wear he was supposed to be dead. 1t was
ii in october, 1853, that the Eighteenth Lou
isiana, having been transferred to the west
side OF the MISSISSIPPI, was encamped on
Berwick Bay, when Oliver suddenly APP
peared among his old comrades. His
story, which was briefly told, was TO the
effect that he had fallen at Shiloh, wounded
in seven places, mimic balls having
pierced his LETT lung, right shoulder, right
arm, his right grOiD, both thighs and left
foot Not 0fOne these balls mad been eX-
traeted, except the one in the foot. After
remaining tWenty-four hours where he
fell Oliver was picked up, more dead than
alive, placed on transport Pud taken to
Louisville, where ne remained in a hos
pital for more than a year. When he
reached his regiment he was greatly en-
acilted. He mad partly lost the use ofhis
nyat arm, but was only slgtly lame
from the bullets in his legs. For several
months Oliver was kept at clerical work
ne having learned TO write with his left
hand }, but in March, 1864, he went into
the battle of Mansfield, ON the Upper Red
River. Here his bad luck again befell
rim, and he was wounded in five differ
4 ent places. A MIME ball imbedded itself
10 his skull, another perforated his right
cheek, the third tore great hole through
The feshy part OF his neck, and two lodged
IN MS left shoulder. Four OF these balls
are still in his boNy. This finished Oliver
Tor the war, and he was sent home a con-
81 1rmed cripple. In 1865, the bullet that
was buried In the skull and so oVerhung
tle brain as to cause constant pain was
n removed.
n at would seem that this chapter of
sangulnary accidents should have had an
ending here, but il did not. One dav in
Inc summer OF 1873 he was standing on a
street corner in Bolton. A dentist in the
upper window OF building near by mis-
h0K him for an enemy for whom he was on
4 lookout or iTb
Garreled shotgun loaded with duck-shot.
fAty-one shots tore their way into his
JACK. vi these twenty -four we're subse-
IUeutIy extracted, but twenty-seven re-
man. OllVer was confined to his bed for
Two years, bis LIE during that time
hanging by a thread. A remarkable VI
taIty served him in this instance, as it
Iau 10 many others. Both bis liver and
MS kidneys were perforated. These
wounds have done more to impair his
general health than all the others COM
bined.
y saw Oliver the other day on his farm
Id bolton. He told me that the only
aeouF he ever felt was in the region OF
At learl, where, he feels sure, a bullet IS
iou2ea IN the sac iDclosing that vital Or
gan. Two years ago Oliver whitfield a
uucA shot out of his right side,
anu ABOUT year ago q frag-
Ont vi OalI that mad split in
passing through his right cheekbone drop.
peu through the roof OF bis mouth and
TSdsswallowed while he was asleep. Three
myers and the palm OF his right hand
I IaVe been amputated, and the entire bone
oel"een tue elbow aud shoulder of the
,Isnt arm has been taken out, and that
memoer is now little use to its owner,
sAoept 10 NIL the coat-sleeve.
men Oliver went bunting with his
" gotner or cousin be weighed 1856 pounds.
h','nating the weight OF lead in his body
I" We TWO pounds, his svoirdupOis is just
,St same as 1t was the day he caught the
N!rIly'seyen bullets in the woods.
MS strange they don't get that old fell
WV ANA nnt him ON o hi hitinn y