Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-08

come without pain or consciousness. sank away like one going to sleep, and the roar of the battle lulled rather than dis turbed me- think it was as much as twenty minutes before came to, and the fight had gone down the line to the left, and it was comparatively quiet where I lay had been hit. The thought gave me a sudden shock and cleared my mind. Wl.ere had the bullet struck met I felt no psin and for few seconds hoped that I Lad only been stunned. Then located the wounds. One of Bragg's shell had explod ed near by. It must have been charged with special reference to my case, for three of the bullets it contained struck me in the right leg, the left shoulder and the right leg, the left shoulder and the right hand, respectively.
 By and by sat up. was weak and thirsty, but I felt no pain. There were four dead men in front of me and two on the left and one on the right. Of the sey en, four were Federals and men of my regiment, who had been killed by the same shell which had wounded me. l could not see behind me, of course, but heard two or three wounded men grooming. Fortu- | nately had canteen of water, and my wounded hand gave me no pain as lifted l it up and drank my fill. I had just worked | along in a hollow spot, where had a rest for my back, when ferce-looking fellow, | whose dress showed him to be teamster or a camp follower of some sort, came out of a clump of bushes about ten rods away. His object, ,as I suspected at first glance, was to rob the dead. It was very seldom that even the worst of the army bummers had the cheek to play the ghoul in broad daylight, and that with | fighting still going on, but this fellow went about it as coolly as you please. He went l through the pockets of every dead man in | front of me, getting considerable plunder | from each, and when he had finished with | the last he came over to me, regarded me with evil eyes 8 moment, and then ! asked:
 "What have you gotF'
 About ten dollars in money" l re- piled.
 ''shell out, and be d-d quick about it, | tool"
 'T can't. I'm hit in three places, and
 the money is in pocket under me. | Hand it over, I say!" l My friend, don't be hard on wound
 ed man. If you'll raise me up I'll try to l get it"
 ''Raise -!" he growled. ''I know of
 a way to get 1t without so much troublel'' | He hadn't far to look to find loaded
 musket, and he picked it 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 10 blow my head of and then rob me at his
 leisure. saw it in his eyes as plain as
 day. believe his finger was on the trig. \ ger when he suddenly staggered back and fell to the earth, the musket being dis charged in the air as he fell. I also saw the bullet as it struck him. It hit him in
 the centre of the forehead, and seemed to
 be enveloped in smoke as it struck. | "Thst's what think of him, no matter
 which side he belongs toT" called voice behind me.
 knew by the voice that he was Con- | federate, and called: | 'Is that you, Johnnyp | ''Yes, that's me, YankI" | "Did you shoot that fellowf"
 "Thar ain't nobody else around yere as | could hev done it!"
 "Thank ye, Johnny What regiment dc
 you--p
 But I couldn't finish. l tainted dead away, and when came to I was being
 picked up by the ambulance corps, and
 was suffering such pain that l forgot all
 about my friend. When did ask for him he could not be traced. and to this day | have not learned his name.