Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-28
HELLO, LIEUTENANT. ARE YOU
HIT?"

to Baltimore. Surgeon Woodall was
located and by a short operation the
ball was removed.
In conversation with Capt. Crowley
a reporter of the Evening Star was
told the story of the bullet which
had been carried about by him for
more than third of century. The
captain said:
II was n lieutenant in the regu-
lars at the time the battle of Antie-
tam was fought, and the first day
of the struggle / was leading my COM
pany up a short hill. on the crest
of which was located a large body of
'confeds.' As we charged, with ev-
cry man yelling at the top of his
voice, went down on my face like
flash. Thinking 1 had stumbled
over something, 1 Immediately arose
as one of the boys called back to me:
"'Hello, lieutenant, are you hit"
"'Not a Scratch l replied, and at
once started after my company.
~ had hardly taken n dozen steps
before 1 felt something wet around
my shoe, and, STOPPING down to turn
up my trousers 1--WE didn't wear leg
gins them, found blood ooZing over
my shoetops. AS soon as l pulled off
my shoe my foot became swollen to
twice its natural size, and l started
| for the rear.
"You may have heard what field
hospital was like, but as the ther-
mometer registered fully 125 in the
sun that poured down on us further
description is unnecessary. Surgeon
Woodall, God bless him, was in COM
mand, and after a hurried eXamina-
ton told me the foot would have to
come off. But / protested, and the
surgeon said all right; he would ex-
anime it later. AS there were hun
dreds of brave boys lying around
waiting to be attended to. the sur
geon passed on.
But an accident again brought
him near the spot where / was lying
on the ground and be once moro
however, it could not be found. The
surgeon then said:
"'Crowley, that ball has gone up
under your ankle bone, and if you
want it out now the foot .s!,l have
to come off. The wound MAJ heal
up and enable you to walk upon the
injured foot. Some day you will jar
the ball from its place, and then it
can be taken out easily
"Quite a prediction, wasn't it?
"a few minutes after the surgeon
left me back came our men on the
run and confusion was everywhere,
The army was retreating and the
wounded men were to be left behind
Try as / could, no one cared to help
regular, and / thought my chances
pretty good of falling into the hands
of the Johnnies. just then a mule
team with supplies halted near me
and in the twinkle of an eye l was
on the back of one of the animals
The darky driver made no objections
and we went off of that battle field
with skip and jump.
, 81 remained in the hospital foI
two months and was then discharged
being able to walk with crutch
Since those days / have had numer
GUS operations performed on the foot
but the bullet refused to come from
it's hiding place. The jar given me
last week, however, did the trick
"The strange part of the wount
was that the bullet when taken out
was incased in sort of amber-lik,
covering, and t,his had prevented
blood poisoning / have had the bul
let made into n watch charm, ant
money couldn't buy it,"
Capt. Crowley fought through tn,
entire civil war, being with the Sec
ond division of the Fifth army corps
I and to-day is bale and hearty,
, slight limp and stoop being the onl.
t reminder that many years hav
' elapsed since he fought for Cncl
Sam.