The morning call., 1891-04-17
GHOULISH INHUMANITY.
a Fiend About to Shoot Wounded Man
Receives His Just Deserts.

A Flend About to Shoot Wounded Man
Receives His Just Deserts.
Our brigade was changing positions at
Stone River, so as to cover the exposed
flank of another brigade, when l suddenly
sank down in heap can remember fall
ing, and it seemed TO me as if fell dis
lance of fifty feet. l also heard PARKWAY
voice saying:
Forward, meni Steady on the right"
II the missiles which struck me had
reached a vital SPOT death would have come
without pain or consciousness. l sank away
like one going to sleep, and the roar of bat
tie lulled rather than disturbed me, says a
writer in the Detroit Free Press. / think 1t
was as much rs twenty minutes before
came to- and the fight had then gone down
the line to the left and it was compare
lively quiet where | lay. l had been hit.
The thought gave me Il sudden shock and
cleared my mind Where had the bull
let struck me? | felt no pain, and for
few seconds hoped that l had only been
stunned. Then | located the wounds. One of
BraGg's shells had exploded near by. 1t
must have been charged with special refer
ence to my case, for three OF the bullets |.
contained struck me in the right leg the
left shoulder and the right hand, respect
lively.
BY and by / sat up. l was weak and
thirsty. but l felt no pain. There were four
dead men in front of me and two on the left
and one on the right. OF the seven, four
were Federals and men OF my reglmentwho
had been killed by the same she'll which had
wounded me. / could not see behind me, of
course, but heard two or three wounded
men grooming. Fortunately | had Il canteen
of water and my wounded hand gave me no
pain as lifted it up and drank my fill |
had just worked along into hollow spot,
where | had a rest for my back, when a
Earaa- 1oplginu Failouy yyhnaa Shotva1
him to be teamster or camp follower OF
some sort, came out of a clump of bushes
about ten rods away. His object, as | sus-
pected at first glance, was to rob the dead.
1t was very seldom that even the worst of
the army bummers had the cheek to play
the gboul in broad daylight. and that with
fighting still going on. but this fellow went
about 1t as cooIly as you please he went
though the pockets of every dead man in
front OF me- getting considerable plumber
from each, and when he had finished with
the last he came over to me, regarded me
with evil eyes moment, and then asked:
What have you gotY'
About $40 in money" i replied.
"Shell out, and be right quick about it.
too"
81 can't. I'm hit in three places and the
money is in pocket under me-"
Hand it over, sayl'
My friend, don't be rough on wounded
man. Ii you'll raise me up III try to get it. y
" Ralse you up! he growled. Il know OF
way to get it without so much TROUBLED
He hadn't far to look to find a loaded mus
ket, and he picked 1t up, raised it to his
shoulder and stepped forward to put the
muzzle to my head before he pulled the
trigger. The internal ghoul meant to blow
my head off and then rob me at his leisure.
| saw it in his eyes as plain as day. | be-
lieye his finger was on the trigger when he
suddenly staggered back and fell to the
earth, the musket being discharged in the
air as he fell. | also saw the bullet as it
struck him. 1t hit him in the center of the
forehead and seemed to be enyeloped in
smoke as it struck.
"That's what | think of him, no matter
which side he belongs tor called voice
behind me.
] knew by the voice that he was CoDfed-
crate and called:
Is that you, johnny"
Yes, that's me, Yank!"
did You shoot that fellow"
Thar amt nobody else around yere as
could hey done itW
" Thank ye, Johnny! What regiment do
you-w
But | couldn't finish. tainted dead away,
and when | came to L was being picked up
by the ambulance corps, and was suffering
such pain that forgot all about my friend.
When l did ask for him he could not be
traced, and to this day have not learned
his name.