Show SOME QUEER WOUNDS One Is Recorded as Having Been Seen Shot With a Barrel of Sugar There were some somo veterans with queer re records in i attendance at the recent reent re- re re recent cent ent encampment One of th these se known familiarly as Comrade Chase who served in p a Maine battery batter during during dur- dur ing ng the war carries the scars of forty forty- eight wounds received in a single battIe bat bat- tIe te le that of Gettysburg His numerous numerous numer numer- ous wounds resulted from the sion ion of a spherical ca case immediately in n front of him bim at that memorable battle batte Corporal John Burns Durns of Ohio receives a pension for a peculiar wound which is described in the penion pension pen pen- sion ion bureau bureau ifs ars ts shot in the hip with a barrel barel of sugar sugar Burns Durns says the Washington Post was on guard duty at a sharp railroad curve in Virginia during the tho latter part of the war anaas and ana was as struck in the hip and amid disabled by bya a barrel of sugar which was thrown suddenly from front the rickety car by the momentum at the turn in the road Another veteran who is present i ij recorded re- re re recorded corded in the bureau as havin having stopped stopped stop- stop ped ed a cannon ball ban with his abdomen He le was sitting in a tent near headquarters head head- quarters when a a spent cannon ball bal came ame bounding along and struck him himin himin in n the stomach with sufficient force to knock mock him hors de do combat but not noto notto notto to o kill kiil kil him Still Sti another queer case is that of a Pennsylvania veteran He lIe was rendered ren- ren dered ered totally deaf by a cannon ball bal which whizzed by his head in uncomfortably close proximity at the battle batte of f Malvern Hill Hi In describing the tha sens sensation afterward he ho said it felt for foran ton an instant an if iff cyclones had bad burst loose about his head The concussion also paralyzed him for several min mimi utes There Thera is another pensioner who receives a monthly allowance from Uncle Sams Sam's till ti for a horse bite of the neck He was a l cavalryman and claims to have havo been bitten by a vicious vicious vici vici- ous animal hie serving with Sheridan Sherdan in n hs valley valey ride The Tho bite bito resulted in n partial paralysis of the tha spine These are but a f few w illustrations ol 01 he the various and multitudinous the peculiarities of var which were represented represent represent- ed d at the gNat jat army encampment |