Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-28
STORIES ABOUT WOUNDED MEN.
'h'ngs That Interested and Puzzled Officers
or Surgeons.
(From the Chicago Inter ocean

I'm tile SnlcakO inter OCpan.1
Nouhueo men,. said the colonel, were
OXEN misunderstood Gen. Fuller of Toledo
tod me that he never expected forgive
ness mes aof one harsh Judgment of his. In
we must OF a battle he was trying to
stop the flight of panic-stricken men. One
man came stumbling along. not needing "A
WORD I'M, mat w, was said to him, Indignant
him leaned from his horse and touched
tne man with his sword, saying sharply
20, 'Io oack: SIR; The man looked up with a
i ,ooh tnaf sald as plain as words: i am
his blouse and showed a great. gaping
wound IN his breast. Then he dropped
10 TO me Inc ground. The general dismountel
| low died ~ '''N f'' ~
some men when struck showed no sign.
ZEN. ren,e ,,, one little fellow who was
struck three times In as many minutes
ne llfst shot struck his right arm. and
ne proceeded to load with his left The
h heN' shpt struck him in the leg, and
arm up famming home a load, when a
bullet struck that arm Then he looked
up }l, a ma said quietly. They havea partcu-
| litr spite against me. | guess I'll quit
ana ne dropped down"
ala We e. mad one man in our company"
sac; sac; me sergeant. who was shot through
IN ihe body at Shiloh. He was carried off
| they would never see him again. But
three days after the battle the regiment
! went INTO camp not far from the field
| hospital and that afternoon the mon
We're surprised to see the man Who Mad
| been shot through and through walk into
| .dnlp' using ms rifle as Il cane He an
I"uhteu mat he had had enough of the
| hospital and wouldn't go back to il. 'Thc
| reslmental surgeon swore a good deal
| insisting that the wounded man should
return to to the hospital but in the end
! agreed That the pucky fellow should be
cared for in the comnanr's nuartars rho
| boys took great care Of him. He i'm
proved rapidly. went on duty as soon as
| he was able to walk and was win TN,
| company TO the end of the service
| Other men who couldn't Dear nhysi-
! cti pam were greatly troubled by flesh
wounds, ana received less sympathy than
| they deserved. The hardest wounds 70
| bear We're those from spent balls. These
| We're more painful than the wounds from
me hard-hitterS. but men struck by spent
| bu4tttS received no sympathy at all For
| "ome reason 1t WAS counted disreputable
| to be hit by spent bali or a splinrer
| rom rock and many men worried
| along under the most painfui vn,ndc
even consulting tn" surgeon Some Of
| these fellows carry the marks today and
| say nothing about them.
The official report of the canine Of
| lookout Mountain" said the major
| stated that Gen. Walter G. Whitaker
was W9nnded, hut that he didn't leave
| ne teld. That Is all true. but ii is only
half the story. Whitaker was one of the
| most lmpetuous, driving officers in the
| army. He was Il regular old stormer. He
| front WIN l. t ,,.l IN great shape IN
| tie became deathly sick. and it was sup
| posed AT first that he was fatally wound
| ,iata Officers .,th.,,I o. |', ~ ms INo-
ana narvnli. snr,,.,',, ,'. Nh LhAi"uS
| erals coat and y4st Innlri,,,s -
wound which Snnr,a,j 10 ~, ~, l. ioi we ,
Of the stomach lie found hetva, i'i Ky
vest ana the undrrclothina y Tifir haIl
! mat had not broken the skin.
"fie said. quietly A spent ball The
| general ouenpd his ewes aud lool.e1 ~,
W1athfW and indisnant .Wbaf's tbIta
| What's that2 Somebody hit me- with g,
spent bail | won't stand it, Bring me
| my horse And fairly throwing aside all
the people about him he snraor tf hfl
| clothing in diSarrav ana his hat hangn]
| on mis- head starte, for the FROM sw4?,r
ing at the man who had hit him with a
| spent ball. Bat the old general 4ffcr tt.,t
probably had more svinp1fhy viii, M,
men who were strurx nv halls tb'+
seemed t. fan from the mir or Thai ciIn,s
Nth as it'll. force as d stone thrown by
| yiciolls hoy Sonati,n.s ,a...a ,,Il
strike a man on tn. foot ara tsif.I,- cT'Izr
him with pain. Sometimes they vonId
| drop on his back as he law farn dnu-n an,
the ground kicking mn nix ha.ls 1,,i 10,
would writh4 as though ne were in rho
agonies of death
| Ceases Of rualjuarrina v..r. -, o,,,,
mon" said tn doctor "fh4f sI,r~nn,'s
were suspicious over wounds mat had
any mystery about thnn, cn,nsti,,,..,. "
man would come from ,h baIiinfisI, ,,
tending to be dazed or unconscious ar3
| would shrink from the tnuoh .,s tbou,h
| he were sore an over. Tbnr4 w,r,. -
many cases of fraud ar,onc The man vin
acted in this way that surgeons were in
danger of doing jniusticr to envaral,,
wounded men.
zone day a mtn WAS brought hack pyho
seemed in great agony. but unnn WHOM,
| We could fnd 40 v-of1nd H. .n,,1,l,,'t
talk cnhereptIv INIT no dressed his ha,d
constantly to his ri.sht sid. chase ,x-
animation showed tbat he had boon
struck bv "A fragment Of ,hou nr a nice
Of rock 50 large as 10 MAKE = hf,,ise two
Or three inches across II ,yas in rort
one of tha most difiirult r.sna To- MOOT
inat came under my personal notire ana
the mans suffering for weeks vas IN
tense And vet probahly no mark Of >,
wound is on that mans hody
While | was in charge of one of the
| HOSPITALS at Nashville the most diftic,iIt