Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-21
QUEER euNsHoT WOUNDS.
Remarkable Stories About Men who Were
Shot on the Battlefield.


Remarkable Stories About Men who Were
Shot on the Battlefield.
Capt. Tip Harrison's Office at the Capitol is
the room where the veterans of the late war
are wont to congregate. When several Of
the old soldiers who bear about them the
scars of many battles meet, "reminiscences of
the great struggle are in order, and some of
the stories told are very thrilling Yesterday
the subject under discussion was the remark
able manner in which some men were wound
ed and recovered and were wounded again
Capt. Tip Harrison is responsible for the fol
lowing:
Lieut.. Muncie, of the Sixty-first Georgia
regiment" said Capt. Tip, twas one of the
most remarkable men | ever knew. He was
slender, cadaverous looking man, with ap-
parently no physical strength, yet he lived
through what would have killed dozen
ordinary men, and is alive today. In the
early part of the war he was shot through
and through. The ball struck the breast
bone and shattered it, passed through his
body, and came out within an inch of his
spine between two ribs. After desperate
struggle for life he recovered, and regained
his regiment AT the battle of Monaccasie
Creek he was again wounded the bali enter
other side of his spine, and issuing from the
same hole that the first ball entered at The
second shot must have taken the passage in
side Muncie's body that the first ball made ia
going in the opposite direction. He was in
prison with me later, and appeared to suffer
no unusual pain"
The case of Sergt. B. T. Outright, who is
now on the Atlanta police force, was cited as
another remarkable instance Sergt Curt
right was wounded in the right arm, the ball
passing through the limb from the front. The
muscles were badly lacerated, and when he
recovered he found that, though ne had per
feet use of his hand, he could not lift his arm
above his head. He was not disabled from
using his weapons. however, and returned to
his company. Later III the war, at the battfs
of Winchester, he was shot in exactly the
same place, except that the ball traversed hi,
arm in the opposite direction When the ill
fiammation subsidized he found, to his sur
prise. that the stiffness of his muscles had
almost entirely disappeared, and he was soon
able to use his arm as well as ever.
Lieut.. Leath was another man with a re-
markable experience. He was leading hii
men into battle when he received the order
to charge. The noise of the guns and the
shrieks of the wounded made it necessary for
him to give his orders at the top of his voice.
He had his mouth wide open, calling out the
word charge, when silver from shell
struck him in the cheek. 1t passed through
his mouth without touching a single tooth
and came out through the other cheek, leav-
ing on each side of his head cash as clean
as if cut by razor. The wound became in
famed, and Leath, who was at the time near
his home, was given leave of absence for two
L. a 4. i
er's house his head was tied up with band.
ages.
The old lady rushed out when she saw him
coming and cried: ''Oh, my son, where are
you woundedl"
Fright through the head he replied
His mother, thinking the wound must be
fatal, sent for doctor without waiting for
explanations. When the medical man ar.
rived he found Leath sitting at the dinner
cable eating hearty meal. Conati
tuition.