Show THE FIRST OFFICER WO eded ED 1 how the late La teeB WRY e z i y i s 11 injury nj u lr ao 10 ivar Y r ar ia n l W va july 20 A dispatch die patch from elliott city md I 1 purports to give the first authentic account of luw biff general B F kelly who died thursday and will be buried in washington to day was wounded in the first battle of the war in 1883 a discuss discussion ion arose among war historians growing out of tho the statement that general kelly was shot by his own men at that t time line the generi himself wrote a letter to geo A AL cannington Dann Durin ington a newspaper friend in this city in which he gave hia his own personal al account of how he received the wound the matter is important as it is an account of ill the first blood of any ras union officer offic e r in the of the re no hellion general kelly anas in the letter referred to a to your pest questions ions as a to ho how if I 1 ML wounded I 1 will vill state that we attacked the eneany in their camp at 4 p mif mp juie 3 1861 Land and drove them th throb r vaa 4 the to town awn at the south eid cid 0 oo 00 a village we observed their wagon t awu n moving out dpn tho the beerle road by a strong stong guard having no cavalry I 1 ordered th nal nfl r VI virginia rg jula reg R al meat to chi at lt double bl q quick ick ana I 1 capture tho the tm trai q L they dide did taking both the doyd raid t tr alar in leading the ago 4 was shot in the right breast t abd tbd talf passing through the body and an a judging in my back under the lower put of tho the right shoulder blade where it remained tour four months 1 a then the extracted by dr frizzle frizze 0 of wheeling beel b lug and found to be an ounce bit ba wilh had evidently beep dmd old flintlock musket with valc m of the rebels were armed NV we I 1 capt pt thed d quite i dumber number of these old musk muskeg A rebel quartermaster not I 1 by the name of jimmea bad halted and was in a vacant lot joi 7 opposite where I 1 fell ja y rf 1 some one orre exclaimed that I 1 bri deen shot by this man mith that he saw tho the aake siu ite of hie his pistol In instantly stand ft A ruh rush wu was made for him ly some of in men ho would haie been kill ed on tho the spot if I 1 had not ordered the men to spare him general lander arrived at this Ino moment ment drew his rei 01 er and ordered the prisoner spared the tile extraction of the old musket ball showed that I 1 was not wounded by a pistol shot by and that I 1 was right in or ordering derin m the men to spare his ills life was field a prisoner of war until I 1 recovered and returned to mr om mand nhan h n 1 paroled him and find sent him through the lines his ills home was w as in richmond |