Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-07-09

paid any attention to me or my pleas
Tor SICK men. Every BODY from highest
to lowest seemed to have FORGOTTEN MS
Thoroughly discouraged. | went outside
the hospital camp, crept into the bushes.
Anelt down, and prayed. The load was
h1ted from my spirit. | returned to camp
TO ma that We had not been forgotten.
supplies soon came, and with them or
ders 10 transfer my sick men to Illinois.
Il went into the battle of Springfield
Mo-, in lSo& with prayer on my lips. |
came out witn seven bullet holes through
my clothes AND without cap. the latter
having been shot off my head. And vet
there was not a scratch on my body. and
| was never, in the hottest fights. disa-
bled by wound. Here | am long past
the hfty-year milestone, hale and hearty.
preserved. | verify believe, by the grace
OF an all-wise Providence Yes. | was
"A praying man. ana believe my prayer
were answered"
Il served in Gen. McNuIty's regiment
myself said another Ninety-Fourther.
l was on outy as private in New Or
leans when Gen. Grant visited that de-
partment. The day he was to return
north many OF our regiment gathered on
the street leading to the landing TO see
the general and his escort pass. AS Gen.
Grant passed the point at which stood
the horse ridden by one Of the Depart
ment STAFF SHE'D and bclted squarely
into the general and his mount.
Grant was a good horseman. but, de-
cni.s ai l. OF ii
came uEmanaGeSble, and threw his rider.
Grant u tanned injuries that made him
an invalid until the battle OF Mission airy
Ridge. did not give the ircite;t at
New Orleans much thought until the
cotton buyers and others whose plans
for speculation had been spoiled by
Grant started the story that the general
had been thrown from his horse because
he was drunk. Then felt that the SOL
diers who witnessed the accident ought
TO tell the truth"
at is a nista.e." said the captain, Ito
say that Grant was a. In yalid until the
battle Of Missionary Ridge He was
lame. but, great Scott, he was the most
active lane man ever saw. The morn
inC after he slipped irtc Chattanooga,
, several weerc before tLo hattle of Mis-
sionary Rio"e he Iimped over TO the old
railway station srd surprised n lot of
fellows who were loading wapors after
the manner of soldiers who didn't care
a timers dam fC~anvho6y. They didn't
know Grant YVES Within a thousand miles
ard buckled down TO work. They won
man with "a..n was IN to- They
learned the next ri~ht when thev were
ordered across tho river and down to
Shelround 70 srnrort FooEer"
falling of S,cl- zen" said an Elev-
enth Ohio ran, our surgeon used to
tell a good story-of man whose case
puzzled all the doctors in our division.
This particular man had been sick for
some weeks, when the regiment was or
dered from West Virginia to Kentucky
and Tennessee. Nobody knew what was
| the matter with him, except that he was
very sick, and the doctor decided to try
| an experiment.
'He had the invalid carried to an army
/ wagon and put in without blanket or
straw. Then there we're thrown in
f, loosely several picks and shovels, and
| the wagon was started on its rough jour-
| ney riverward. The jolting of the wagon
| kept the picks and shovels on the move
! to the great inconvenience of the sick
! man, and he shouted to the surgeon
What in thunder did you put these
shovels and picks in for7'
'The doctor rode up and explained
that, as he had a mysterious disease
that had baflied all treatment, the sur
| geons had decided that man so affected
could live only short time, and the
| picks and shovels had been put in sc
( that he might be buried without loss Of
time. Thereupon the fellow swore he
| wouldn't die, and, rousing himself to eff.
! fort, got well. The heavy dose of picl
| and shovel cured him."-Chicago Intel
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