Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1890-02-15
QUEER euNsHoT WOUNDS. (
Remarkable Stories About Men who We're
Shot ON tho battlefield.


Shot on tho Battlefield.
Capt Tip Harrison's Office at tho Capitol Is
tho 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
tho 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
cd and recovered and were wounded again.
Capt. Tip Harrison is responsible for the fol-
lowing;
Lieut. Munce, of tho Sixty-flrst Georgia
regiment" said Capt. Tip, twas one of the
most remarkable men eyer knew He sas
a slender, cadaverous looking man, with APP
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 bis
body, and came out within AN inch OF y
spine between two ribs. After a desperate
struggle for life he recovered, and regained
his regiment. AT the battle Of Monaccasie
Creek he was again wounded, the ball enter
other side OF his spine, and issuing from tho
some hole that the first ball entered at. The
second sdot must have taken the passage in
side Muncies body that the first ball made in
going in the opposite direction. He was in
prison with me later, and appeared to suffer
no unusual pain.n
The case of Scrgt. B. r. Outright, who Is
now Oh the Atlanta police force, was cited as
| another remarkable instance. Sergt. Curt
I right was wounded in the right arm, the ball
/ passing through the limb from the front. The
| muscles were badly lacerated, ard when he
! recovered lie found that, though he had per-
feet use of lis hand, he could not lift his arm
/ above his head lie was not disabled from
using his weapons, however, and returned to
his company. Later in the war, at the battle
of Winchester, he was shot in exactly the
same place, except that tho ball traversed his
arm in the opposite direction. When the III
flammation subsided he found, to his sur
prise, that the Stiffness of his muscles had
almost entirely disappeared, and be was soor
able to use his arm Is well us ever.
Lieut. Leath was another man with re
markable experience. He was leading hi
men into battle when be received the order
to charge. The noise Of the guns and The
shriel:s of the wounded made it necessary fol-
him to give his orders at the top Of his voice
He had his mouth wide open, calling out th'
word charge, when silver from a shell
struck him in the cheek. 1t passed through
his mouth without touching single tootl
and came out through the other cheek, leav
ing on each side of his head cash as cleal
as if cut by a razor. The wound became in
famed, and Leath, who was at the time nea
his home, was given leave of absence for tw
or three days. When he rode up to his moth
er's house his head was tied up with band
ages.
The old lady rushed out when she saw hir
coming and cried: "Oh, my son, where ar
you wounded?
Fright through the head" lie replied.
HE mother, thinking the wound must b
fatal, sent for a loctor without waiting 70
explanations. When the medical man al
rived he found Leath sitting at the Dime
table eating hearty meal. Atlanta Consti
tuition.