The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-07
PALACE HOTEL.
HOW BULLETS FEEL.
Interviews With Wounded Sena.
tors and Members Of Congress.

E-IAU CURING the week ] have talked with
aFxSg twenty wounded members of the
k-efl Senate and House rs to the sensation
which results from being shot in battle. /
find that great many Teceived wounds
without being conscious Of hurt at the
time. The degree Of pain experienced by
those who are conscious OF wound depends
much on what part Of the body is struck and
much on the temperament and sensiblity of
the person Injured,
THE seYeFest pain l ever experienced in
battle" sai1 Senator Cockrel, who was
wounded three times, was caused by bull
let that did not hit me at all. / was riding
at the bead Of my regiment. when it passed
under my chin with deviIish whistle and a
slash like saber stroke. 1t stung me like
a red-hot iron, and l thought it had cut my
throat. but on putting up my hand it only
caught lot OF whiskers that had been cut
off. There was no blood and no harm. |
was shot through the arm and through both
legs in the same battle, breaking the bones,
but none OF these clips hurt half as much as
the bullet that did not hit me. In fact
while my right leg become suddenly be,
numbed, | did not suspect till half an honr
afterward that bullet had gone through
my left leg, too. The boys discovered it
when they were carrying ne off. Ii had not
panied me in the least. l didn't know it
was touched"
Senator Henderson was severely wounded
several times. How much it hiIts de-
ponds on where you are hit" he lid. II
was on horseback when | was s.rnck Mt
Lovejoy's Station, and for some II inutes II
felt as Il a charge Of red-hot Goals h1I hean
shot into ne-IOI 1t struck the vital renter-
the spine. Presently | began to feel he
numbed in my extremities ami the men car
rfa1 off IN ID. ''Nh Noi
men had finger shot off and didn't know
it, He was lying in his tent pointing mn at
something, when comrade said siooi az
your finger. Joe--what's the matter. '''A az
Hello II suddenly exclaimed tho 1ate
owner of the member. Somebody must have
In reply to a question, Senator Mander-
son said: manifestations of extreme fear
in battle were not common. | tbinL ~
soldier generally feels that he rerson ,ilv 10
In the charm d zone of S, fetv-that he
tboay Is Where bullets 90 OF ONE but that
would get into danger. L never romld ant
rid of this notion. u so'
saw the first meeting after tho worho
tween General Wheeler. NJ. c., of ANA wh, me "e-
ana and Major Powell, Director of The United
artillery dtel at Meriden, Miss some n uoara
earlier. 'oiie years
Yon are not a large man, General, said
Major Powell, surveying his Joiner a, sasu
onist of five feet six. Hie' ah'as
NO, nature was not very penaro,s =,
my case" said the ex-Confederatnu etous III
But have stood opposite TO W., o.;,
Powell. when | thought you mnst' saat
least II feet high. For just as go, y, pe az
leries wheeled up on the hill that my pat
your position, one of your solid Shot hi
close to my size and went throneh t INV iea
my men, killing them in their rrae cLiee u
was terrible sight. l ultimately dro,,S ~
OIL, but the work of that NV yod
me long" vail haunlen
Major Powell and General Hooker u r.
OF Mississippi. faced each other ~ Vi., -
burg. and both came out Of Inc war n,,',,s
an arm. Hooker having lost his iaft a3
Powell his right. Now hey are pood fri, =
and for some years they have eyeha.g
gloves, each, on buying gloves, presents3 u y
The other the superhuous glove Of ths ~
sent hand. In this way each has tyioo "
many gloves as he buys. II Is a nasbat 90
reciprocity. fsetc
General d. B. Henderson, the ban,,sono
ocotch Representative, lost leg at Cormth
but he handles his artificial limb SO Weirihn;
lew guess his injury. Joe Cannon W. tha
champion Congressional dancer wbep H. elo
derson first came up from Iowa, and he I'LL gu
his own way at the Nat;ua u
Joe lad seen him on crutches and Vac snlaI.
for him, but when David came bovings ?;rry
the ball room one night without an srs, mo
but his two very agile feet and seeet, port
Of Cannon's favorlte partnerssssor Tho 4 ole
labyrinths of tbe german. the ~ ~ we navy
of DanvilIa laoned against ,55 "AltZer |
paralyzed and let his little 1nger ~, post
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