NARROW ESCAPES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 236, 5 October 1880, Page 4

NARROW ESCAPES.

Afc the battle of Peach Orchard, when M'Clennan was making his change of base, a Michigan infantryman fell to the ground as if shot stone dead) and was left lying in a heap as the regiment changed 'position. The ball which hit him first struck the barrel of his gun, glanced and* struck a button off his coat, tore the watch out of his vest pocket, and struck the raßn over the heart and was stopped thero by a song book in \<u shirfc pocket. He was unconscious for thr<je quarters of an hour, and it was a full month before the black and blue spot disappeared. At Pittsburg Landing a member of the Twelfth Michigan Infantry stooped down to give a wounded man a drink from his canteen. While in this act a bullet aimed at his breast struck the canteen, turned aside, passed through the body of a man, and buried itself in the leg of a horse. The canteen was split open, and dropped to the ground in halves. . Afc the second battle of Bull Run, as a New York infantryman was passing his plug af tobacco to a comrade, a bullet struck the plug and glanced off and' buried itself in a knapsack. The tobacco was rolled up like a ball of shavings, and carried a hundred feefc away. Directly- in line of the. ball was the head of a lieutenant, and had not the bullet been deflected he would certainly have received ih As it was he had: botlij eyes filled with tobacco dust, and liad to be Jed to the rear, -:

At Brandy Station ob6 of Ouster^ troopers had his left stirrup-strap cut away ..by a grape-shot, which passed between his leg and the horse, blistering his skin as it' a red hot iron had been used. He dismounted to ascertain the amount of his injury, and as he bent over a bullet knocked his hat off and killed his horse. In the same fight Was! a trooper who had suffered several days with toothache. In a hand to hand .fight he received a- ball in the right cheek. It knocked oiit his aching double tooth and passed out of the lefthand corner of his mouth, taking part of an upper tooth along with it. The joy of being rid of the toothache was so •great that, the trooper could not.be made togo to the rear to have his wound dressed*