NARROW ESCAPES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 238, 7 October 1880, Page 4

NARROW ESCAPES.

An object, no matter how trifling, will turn a bullet from its true course. This was shown one day afc the remount camp in Pleasant Valley, , They had t t» , , Cm in.""

" bull-pen" in which about 500 bounty jumpers and other hard cases were under guard. Once in a while one of these men would make a break for liqerty. Every sentinel in position would open fire, and it did not matter in the least if the men ran towards the crowded camp. On this occasion a prisoner made for tho camp, and as many as six shots were fired atiiim without effect. . One of the bullets entered the'tent of a captain in the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry. He was lying down, and the course of the bullet would have buried it in his chest. Fortunately for him the candle by which he was reading was set on the stand between him and where the bullet entered. This was struck and cut square in two,and the lighted end dropped to the floor without being snuffed out . Th c ball was deflected and buried itself in a pillow under the officers head, passed out of that and through his tent, entered one behind it, passed between two men, and brought up against a camp kettle. ! There is in Detroit to-day a 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 scalp wound; tho third hit him in the foot; the fourth buried itself in his shoulder; the fifth entered his right leg. While he was being carried to the rear the first two men who took him were killed. While his wounds were being dressed an exploding shell almost buried him under an avalanche of dirt. In being removed further to the rear a runaway ambulance horse carried him half a mile and dumped him out, and yet to-day he is seemingly hale and hearty and walks without a limp.