The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-07-09
WOUNDED In THE WAR.
Shot in the Abdomen at Cumber
land Gap.
Mind. Rheumatic and Dropsicnl. A
Union Colonel Is Given Over to Die.
How the Old Soldier Gave
AErael the slip.
From the News. Barboursville. ky.

From the News Barboursville. Ky.
In the year 1863, while in command of a
Union regiment at Cumberland Gap. Colonel
Messer, now of Flat Iicks Kentucky. re.
ceived severe gunshot wound in his abdo-
men. In few months he was again in the
saddle, but soon was Obliged TO undergo fur
Their medical treatment, and his condition be-
came so serious that in the winter OF 1868 he
returned to his home, and was never again
tit for active service. During the years that
have since passed, Colonel Messer has been a
confirmed invalid from the effect of his
wound and has been under the constant care
OF the local physicians, not improving, but
growing worse as the years rolled on. His
condition eventually became depora bic.
Almost blind. legs swollen, so that he was
unable to walk, the doctors who could do
nothing to arrest the progress OF the disease,
diagnosed 1t as dropsy, and said recovery was
impossible.
The old soldier did not half believe his
physicians, but said that since they could
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