Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-18

heard him mutter, with an ounce ball
in his chest"
He found that I was kept alive by
some simple nourishment and directed
it to be continued.
ut is all anybody can do for him."
he said
Well, lot to make my story too
hospital till spring. l ought to have
died, as they expected, and predicted
that l would, but l did not. 1t would
be hardly true to say that l got much
better. By slow degrees I was able
to sit up, stand, and then hobble with
crutehes. But my strength was all
gone; to myself l seemed about as
much dead as alive
Along in May I was discharged, and
went home. Everybody was glad to
see me, but all regarded me as a dying
man, just on my looks The local doc
tors heard my story of the case, looked
at the wound, which was now pretty
we'll healed and said that, while 1t was
most extraordinary case, they
thought that, because l had lived so
long with the bullet in my body, there
was hope that l might live longer. l
thanked them kindly, and told them
that / had come to that conclusion
myself before talking with them.
Time went on; years passed. was
still weak, but seemed to be improv
ing. l could walk around and do
some light work. But was a marvel
to every doctor who heard of or saw
me.
One day in the spring of 1873 dis
covered hard lump over my left hip,
accompanied with pain and tenderness
to the touch. I went straight to the
village doctor and showed 1t to him.
What do you think Of it," I asked
him.
He put on his glasses, felt Of the
lump, and said that 1t was "a simple
tumefaction, caused by some external
violence"
mo-" / said, Its that bullet"
He laughed at me. I insisted. At
first he positively declined to use a
knife on it; but when l told him that
If he did not some other doctor would,
he went at it, and out came the bullet
just as you see 1t now.
Well, the doctor couldn't tell-no
doctor could tell-anything about the
wanderings of that ragged chunk Of
lead around in my body. Here it is,
and I would not exchange it for it's
weight in gold. Why it did not kill
me, how it could gravitate from my
chest down to my hip, are things that
mo fellow can find out" not even the
doctors
OF course, such a wound as that
will shorten my life. No man ever
completely RECEIVERS from the effects
of a bullet through his body. But I
have been wonderfully spared, and
hope to last some years yet.-James
Franklin Fits.
Comrades, Halt! About Face!
Richard Boylston Hall, member OF
U. S. Grant Post, %, Chicago, writes
the Chicago Inter Ocean as follows:
To the Editor-Yes, it seems about
time to call a halt, about face, and
make an orderly retreat. We OF the
Grand Army of the Republic have al
lowed sentiment to run away with
Judgment. We have been extending
the hand of good fellowship and broth
erly love to the "rebs." We have made
strenuous efforts to put aside all preJu-
dices and create bond of union be-
tween those who wore the gray and
those who wore the blue.
Just at this time our G. A. R. posts
are completing their arrangements for
the annual ceremony Of decorating the
graves of our fallen comrades. Many
of our posts have arranged to also dec
.orate the graves of those that passed
away in the great struggle" wearing
the gray Now behold the gratitude
shown, the appreciation of our untlr1ng
and unselfish activities.
The women Of the South, in the
State of Georgia, last week unveiled
a monument to honor the memory OF
one OF the uOSt u0d1IASSS, WASACA Gnu
diabolical wretches' that ever lived,
villain that was tried, convicted or
murder. and hanged by order Of mill
tary commission, the proceedings OF
which were approved by the President
of the United States.
This wretch had command OF the
rebel prison at Andersonville, and it
was his proud boast: Il am killing
more Yankees than Lee at the front"
This wretch was not Georgian; he
was not even Southerner. Yet these
women of the South proclaim the mar
tyrdom of this murderer and unvetl,
with much ceremony and oratory,
monument to his memory.
Could they have offered to US sur
vivors Of the Union Army a greater
insult? Am | not correct in calling a
halt and about face? Is it not plain,
when such an organization as the