Show BULLETS stories tle the curious i taken rh ical journal at the battle of peach Ore orchard bard when mcclelian mcclellan was making his change of base infantryman fell on the aroun ground d as if shot dead and was left lying in a heap as tho regiment changed position the ball which hit him first struck the barrel of his gun glanced and struck the button off his coat tore the watch out of his vest pockett lien struck the man over the heart and was stopped t p ed there by a log book in his shirt h it pocket he ile was unconscious for three quarters of an all hour had it was a full month before the black and blue s spot ot disappeared at pittsburg landing landing a member of the twelfth michigan regiment of infantry stooped to give a wounded man a drink f from rom his canteen while in the act a bullet aimed at his breast struck the canteen turned aside passed through the body of a man and buried itself iu the leg of a horse home the canteen was split open and dropped to the ground in li halves alres at the second battle of bull run as anew a new york infantryman was passi passing ng his plug of tobacco to a comrade a bullet struck the plug glanced off and buried itself in a knapsack the tobacco was rolled up like a ball of shavings and carried a hundred feet a away way directly in the line of the bullet was vas the head of a lieutenant and had not the bullet been deflected he lie would certainly have received it As it was he had both eyes filled with tobacco dust and had to be led to the rear at brandy station one of custers Ou troopers had his left stirrup stra strap cut away by a grape shot v which i passed assed between his leg and the florse horse blistering the skin as if a red hot iron had bad teen been used he dismounted d is nun ted to ascertain the extent of iD injuries juries and as he stooped over a bullet knocked his hat off and killed his horse in the same fiat fight was a trooper who had suffered several days with a toothache in a hand band to hand fight ho lie received a pistol ball in his right cheek it knocked out his aching double tooth and passed assed out of the lefthand left hand corner of eis his mouth taking along apart a part of an upper tooth the joy of being rid of the toothache was so great that the trooper could not be made to go to tho the rear to have bave his wound dressed A an object however trifling will turn the bullet from its true course this w was as shown one day at the remount caknip in pleasant valley they had bad a bull pen there in which about five hundred bounty juni jumpers pers and other hard cases were under guard once in a while one of these men would make a break for liberty every sell sentinel t ine I ill in position would open fire and it did C id not matter in the least if the man ran toward the crowded camp on this occasion the prisoner made for the camp and as madr many as il SIX six shots were fired at him without effect one of o tho bullets entered the tent of a captain in the twelfth pennsylvania cavalry he ile was lying down and the course of the bullet would have buried it in his chest F fortunately for him a candle by which he lie was reading sat sh on a stand between him and where the bullet entered this was struck and cut square u are in two and the lighted end tr dropped copped to the floor without being snuffed out the ball was deflected and buried in n the pillow under the officers licad lead passed out of tai that it and through his 13 tent into the one behind if passed between two men and brought up against a camp kettle there is in detroit mich a it man who was wounded five times in less than ten minutes at fair oaks the first bullet entered his left arm the second gave him a real scalp p wound the third hit bit him in the foot the fourth buried itself in the right shoulder tile fifth entered his right ie leg while he lie was being carried earned to the rear the first two men who took him bim were killed while his wounds were being dressed an exploded shell almost buried him under er an avalanche of dirt in being re removed moved further to the rear a runaway ambulance horse carried him a half a mile and dumped him out yet he is h seemingly hale and lind hearty and walks without a limp |