The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-21

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We're shot on tie Battlefield.

We're shot on tie Battlefield
q Atlanta Constitution.
4 esrtisif Tip Harrisors's office az the CAPT.
) Ute room where the veterans Of the
- xaf ere wont to ecngregate. When
nssrHE 81 the old soldiers who hear about
sen the scars Of many battles meet,
1 snsnacences OF the great struggle are in
slss, aud some Of the stories told are very
4 sslIing. Yesterday the subject under
3 skassion was the remarkable manner In
sheh some men we're wounded and Fecov-
i ed and we're wounded again. Captain
~ Harrison is responsible for the FOL.
1 ssiog
lieutenant Manele. OF the sixty -lirst
isgfsia regiment. . said Captain Tip. was
y Of the most remarkable men ] ever
~. He was slender. eadayerois-look-
Il nan. with apparently no physical
/ ssnrh, get he lived through what would
sue killed dozen ordinary men. and Ii
llse today. In The early part Of the war
& hxas shot through and through. The
8 81 struck the breast bone and shattered
8 ! passed through his body and csme out
sahln a. inch Of hrs spine between the
3 -. After desperate struggle for life he
severed and regained hia regiment. At
= battle OF Monaecasie creek he was
ma sounded, ssse ball entering between
{4Duespoading ribs on the other side OF
htglne and issuing from the same hole
4 81 lhe FIRST bail had entered. The second
4 - mslst have taken the passage inside
Races body that the FIRST ball made IN
/ snsin the opposite direction. He was in
/ isNa With me later and appeared 70 suffer
4 = casual pain
~ case Of Sergeant u. n. Outright who
k10N en- the Atlantis police force. was
] aNi n another remarkable instance.
Szsskrk Outright was wounded in the
sigAt frp. the bali passing through the
hnsb iigm the front. The muscles were
/ hsa9 lAeerated. aud when he re.
mWFsd, though he found he bad perfect
sas d Bis hand. he could not lit his arm
hess bis head. lie WAS not disabled from
Hslns hts weapons. however, and returned
hhis company. Later In the war, at the
hHls Of Winchester. he was shot in Ell
80 The same place. except that the bali
mssfsed his arm In the opposite direction.
Wien the Inflammation subsidized he found.
IBIS surprise. that the Stiffness cf his
ssseles had almost entirely disappeared.
q be vas soon able 30 use bis arm as we'll
#sssef.
lAeetenant Leath was anol her man With
Anmafkaale experience. He was leading
!. men into battle when he received the
szsf % charge. The noise OF the guns
= Tie shrisks OF the wounded men made
heeessary FOE him % give bis orders al
= hp OF his voice He had his mouth
~ open, calling out the word charge.
sasn silver from a shell struck him in
= check. II passed through his mouth
saAsai touching single tooth and came
= through the other cheek. leaving on
s ssa s1se q his head cash a. clean ~ II
g % razor The wound became in
Aned, and Leath, who WINS az the time
- his home. was given leave OF absence
= Two or three DAYS. When he rode an
: p mothers house bis head vas tied up
~ HANDBAGS.
Ias esd lady rushed out when she saw
SEEMING. and cried, on, my son.
sssss are you wounded -
Asht through the head. he replied.
nA mother. thinking the wound mast he
-, sent for = doctor. withota waiting
tspssaaiions When ths medical man
sass'i be found Leah sitting Al the dinner
- tAtEg hearty meal.