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WAR STORIES. Wonderful Vitality and .Pluck ol' two Con federate Soldiers. To thc Editor of thc News and Cou ru r : Heading the account of the ter rible wound of Col. ll. Snowden An drews, as published in the Baltimore Sun and which appeared ic Friday morning's issue of your paper, and as our President's death has been eauscd by an abdominal wound, and as it is of local interest to ourselves, I would like to place on record thc remarkable recovery of tho late Gen. Rudolph c:~~i:~_ ne --,nimAr>A .? wlvgtiug, vt UUI V1 VJ j nuauuuu uv luv battle of thc second Manassas, aud then lieutenant in thc German Ar tillery. The battery in which Lieut. Sicg ling commanded a section was ordered 10 iakc an advanced position. ? bat tery of the Federals was directly op posite them. While advancing to thc position a shell from a rifled cannon known as a Ilotcbkiss shell-burst in front of thc advancing company, wounding a corporal and taking off thc cover of an ammunition chest. Thc base of the shell struck Lieut. Siegling in tho left groin, tearing away thc clothing and sword belt and penetrating thc abdominal walls. It made a rent about ten inches in length, exposing all the contents of the left abdominal region, including thc peri toneum and intestines. Shreds of clothing were carried into thc wound and, being exposed to soil and parti cles of vegetable mailer, these also 11 lied in the wound surfaces. Lieut. Siegling by the force of tho blow was hurled from his horse and fell in a trench between two corn hills, bleeding and in a semi-insensible con dition. A man of strong nerve and groat courage, and having in his early life taken a course of . medical study, he had prepared himself for this very emergency, and taking the morphine in his possession at tho time avoided tho evil effects of tho shock, which is so often the immediate cause of doath on the battlefield. ' I reached him in about fifteen min utes after the wounding and found him exhausted and in collapse from tho loss of blood, lyiog between the corn hills. The battle was Btill raging in our immediate front, and the whistling of tho balls from tho infantry aa they passed above and around us could bc heard and almost felt. The Federal artillery were still in action, direoting their fire on the very spot-shells ex ploding often so near as to cover us with earth. , Under those circumstances hem cnorrhage was controlled, the wound .dr?tt?su uud, BB D?UU VB' a ?tr?iCu?r could be obtained, the lieutenant was removed for a half-mile along the firing line to the field infirmary in the im mediate vioinity. An examination, in whioh I had the assistance of thc most eminent surgeons of our com mand, convinced us that tho injury was certainly mortal. The whole ab dominal wall of the left side was opened, tho peritoneum torn and .? lacerated, the intestines not out, but bruised and congested and exposed, being filled with dost, leavea and shreds of olothing. In those days we had no hypoder mic syringe, nor did we have an idea of the antiseptic treatment of wounds. Fare spring water was thc best we could obtain and, this being freely used, the wound was closed, after tho abdominal contents had been returned and entered as far a? the extreme laceration w-3uld permit. The lieutenant was made as com fortable as possible, notified of his condition, whioh he fully realized and made all his preparations for death 'oven diotaticg his last will. So certain was tho opinion of the fatal termination of his injuries that one of his fellow officers (Mr. Simons) had his coffin mado from the boards of a fence in the neighborhood and the suit of uniform to bury, him laid out. As it turned out he had no use for it, and I was informed that tho gallant Gol. Gadborry, of Newberry, was buried in this coffin. The treatment of this wound, par ? ?olltr Ki? t\\a tilnaaA >nJ A*\AM .?.'?i'Hiii -rf - rf - -- - -??f????. was with the cold wet pack of pure spring water, just as in the case of Gol. Andrews. Lieut? Siegling rallied both from the shock Mia tho operation. He re mained under my oars for four days and thou, being under orders from ?<3 on. Lee to rejoin the army then in Maryland, I transported bim, in the enfeebled condition In whioh he was, -eight miles over a rough road in a trough ambulance and left him under a tent-fly in the orchard attached to a country house under th O'meara of a ! cul physician. Lieut Siegling pro fei-c^ed favorably to recovery after many weeks of confinement to his bed. The wound healed by seoond inteu \ lioh, as it is surg'cally known. Vory j little if any modification in the pri mary treatment was made. Tho in domitable pluck, great nerve and de termination to live helped and sus tained thc lieutenant in his battlo for life and materially assisted thc sur geons in their efforts. Lieut. Siegling after months of con valescence made a complete recovery and returned to his command, and he served with distinction until tho close ; of tho war. Among surgeons of that day, cf whom I may mention the late Dr. Darby and Dr. Taylor, of Colum bia, as woll as thc leading men of thc army, his recovery was recorded as one of thc most rcmarkablo of thc time. At ibis time, when thc whole civ ilized world is deeply interested in thc tragedy which terminated at tho Mil burn house in Buffalo, it is not out of placo to make this record of a gallant soldier in his light for life, though he has been long since gathered to his fathers, covered with thc honors of a military and civic life. In view of thc improvements in modern surgery, the superiority of surgical instruments and all the ap pliances of antiseptic treatment, it is remarkable that a case of this kind should have met with success. As the attending surgeon of Lieut. Sieg ling (afterward Gen. Siegling) I have thought best to ask your publication of this record. Capt. Baohman, of Columbia, and the Hon. James Sim ons, of Charleston, so well known to us all, cac bear testimony to the facts and tho heroism of the officer. Tho base of the shell was secured by myself po thc battlefield and is now an heirloom in the Siegling family/' J. SOMERS BUIST, M. D., Late Surgeon C. S. A. Sept. 14, 1901, 279 Meeting street. Col. Andrew's Terrible Wound. Speculation as to the prospects of the President recovering from the wound in his stomach has recalled to many Baltimoroans the desperate wound re ceived by Col. R. Snowden Andrews, of the Confederate artillery service, now living at 107 West North avenue. Col. Andrews was riding on bia horsu at tho battle of Cedar Run when a shell struok him on the right side, completely tearing away the abdomi nal wall', crushing the bonos of th<r hip and narrowly missing the intes tines as it passed out. Col. Andrews was placed by the roadside by some friends. Messen gers were sent for a surgeon, but none could be found. The colonel lay by the roadside from noon until night, when an ambulance picked him up. All that time ho had been Buffering, fully conscious, without any relief whatover, and no dressing to his wound. In falling from the horse, and afterward as he lay prostrate, much dirt and other foreign substan ces entered the wound. After being jolted over tho rough road for eight miles he was deposited in a farm house, still alive, much to thc amazement of the driver and all that were aware of the oase. When told of the wound the army surgeon, ?cr-rw. \\uA Yt ann ll rv .ttl? ?? ?-1 declared that his services would havo Availed nothing. At the house the inmates thought he was about to die at any minute and said it was ?seles i ?o send for a doctor, but the oolone I insisted that he waa going to get weil and to satisfy him a country doctor who was passing by was oalled in. This physician also said it was use less to do anything, especially as ho had no instruments with him eave such as were carried in the usual as sortment of country physicians. Col. Andrews deolared that he was not going to die without a strong fight for life and ordered tho doo tor to proceed. Aotiog under these positive instruc tions tho dootor pulled out the intes tines with his bare hands, the Colonel, who was under no anaesthotios, bear ing the suffering in a stoical manner. Pure spring water was used to wash the intestines, after whioh the dootor replaced them as carefully as he oould and sowed up the wound. He then set the injured leg. It was a slim array of instruments with whioh this feat was accomplish ed, and even they were not of the best, for some of them were so rusty from long lack of use that the opera tion had to be stopped while they were sharpened and cleaned on aa emery stone. That tt?o wouud in itself did not kill the Colonel is a wonder, but that he did not dio anyhow of blood Poisoning is something that has never eea understood. When tao doctor had fin? nh ed his work the soldier was laid fiat on his back in bed and left to be treated by his orderly,.assisted by the occasional visit s of the surgeon of the battalion. They were absolutely without medical appliances of any kind, medicines' ho ing soarce in the South in those days, and ali they could do was to bathe tho wound every hall' hour with cold wa ter. This they did, with thc remarka ble result that no fever developed, and in BIX weeks the patient had re covered his strength to such an ex tent that he was able to be carried to Richmond on a train, partially sup porting himself on crutches. At Richmond he remained as a convales cent for several months, and then re turned to aotive duty in thc field. But thc aotual work of soldiering wa? too much for even his wonderful strength aud constitution at that time, so he was wiihdruwu and seat abroad in tho interest of the Con federacy, serving there for maoy months, but was not able to ?gain take his command. When Col. Andrews reached Rich mond the best doctors in the Confed erate Capital took charge of his case, and he was fitted out with a silver pinto to wear n.co?? bia sbdooics, acd he has worn it ever since. After the war he became almost as strong as he was before the wound and frequently went fox hunting. It is related that one day he rode fifty miles on busi ness and pleasure combined without feeling any serious effects from the unusual exertion.-baltimore *Sun. Capture of Federal Picket. Editor Journal : I have been read ing with interest the ''close calls" of tho boys in gray, and will tell what I think was one of my closest calls. I belonged to Jenkins brigade, un der Longstreet, and was in 48 battles and skirmishes and picket fights. I was a brigade scout, tho latter part of the war for 18 months. Now any one who scouted aB an infantry scout knows what it is to crawl through an enemy's picket line in the dork, and to walk through their camps and slip back through their lines again before day. I was wounded three times and had eeveral holes shot through my clothes in doing this thing. But here was one of my closest calls : I had captured several cavalry pick ets on the Darby Town road below Richmond in the winter of 1864; Colonel Spear, commanding the Eighth Tennesseo Cavalry regiment, kept up the picket lice. He sent me word by some of tho oitizens near his line that he was putting his bravest men on a certain post where I had captured one. I thought I would see how a bravo Yankee looked. I took one mah, William Merritt, and slipped up to within about 20 yards of him before he saw me. He told mo to surrender, but as he threw up his gun to fire, I fired 5: st and shot him under tho arm. As he tell, his own gun fired, the ball hitting the ground at my feet. I con sider this a OIOBO call, to be shot at by one of the north's bravest men. WILLIAM STEELE. Re oves Station, Ga. An Unfair Parallel. The New York World intimates that the alleged cruel treatment of the old men and boys in the Boer prison camps in Bermuda will revive recol lections of Andprsonville. That is a most unfair parallel. The British government has abundant means at its command to provide good food in ample quantities for the Boers who have been captured and sent to .mili tary prisons. There can be no justi fication for the failure of the British government to supply the captives with wholesome rations three times a day. If supplies cannot be obtained in Bermuda the; can bc bought in tho United States 09 seat from England. I It is not a matter of ability to provide food, for Great Britain is ono of the riebest nations in the world and has gold enough to feed a great many more Boers than have surrendered or have been captured. As regards tho Confederate 3tates government, the oonditiono were en tirely different. In the last yesrs of elvi! WA? lt was almost impossible for the Confederate go ?<?rnroont to supply its own troops with the plainest kind of food. Women and children wore compelled to live on half rations. A little cornmeal and a Small pieoe of badly ourcd baoon made a meal which in the last days of the Confederacy was considered s luxury. Tho porto of the South were blooksded, and no supplies could bo obtained from with out. For a year before the oollapse of the Confederacy the Southern States were literally on the verge of starva tion. Under such conditions, when it was impossible for the Confederate government to provide food for ita own soldiers in sufficient quantities, it could not, of course, supply the thousands of Northern soldiers who had been captured with the abundant and appetising' rations whioh ?he Washington government had no diA culty in providing.. Beosuse.of its inability to feed the captif ea when its own people - vere. starving, the Con federate government proposed an ex change of prisoners. Upon the advice of Gen. Grant as4 other ccmm.?u?ro the United States government refused to make an exchange, Every Con federate prisoner released from a northern prison, wrote Gen. Grant in effeot, will re-enlist in the Confederate armies, aud we will have to fight them again. Jtather than take this risk President -Lincoln concluded that it sponge all over with hot water. Tea would be better to leave thc Northern and coffee must not bo drunk by thossj prisoners in tho South despite thu subject to fainting attacks. If wo io bullicio ney of supplies. It would coen they must not wear corsets. Men nave boco easy enough to bring them must not use tobacco in any form nor to the North, where there was no laok drink intozicents if subject to these of food. If therfUnited States govern- attacks. Heavy and indigestible ment had been as solicitous about the foods, like pork, veal, ham, etc, must welfare of these captives then as it be avoided, as also most heavy work, was later, when the war was over, it 1 1 ? . might have saved the lives of some of Better if he Had.1 these unfortunates. - Notwithstanding the poverty of tho Coming home rather late one night, South and tho scarcity of food io thc old Jones discovered a.country yokel last years of the war, it is a signifi- "?th a lantern standing by tho kitchen cant fact that the number of Coofed- ?oor. ?rate soldiers who died in Northern "Young man," said he, "what are prisons was greater than that uf you doing hew?" Northern soldiers who died in South- "I'T oom0 *-oourting, sir." ern prisons. There was no laok of "A-courtiog? What do you mean?" provisions in the North-no dearth of "Well, I'm a follower of Miry, the comfortable clothing, no reason wby kitchen maid, sur." prisoners should not have been "Do y<>u usually carry a lantern h. althy. The conditions at And'jr- when you are on such errands?" asked sci.ville may have been far di?erent i,'ue ?'i? man, sarcastically, from what they should have been. "Yes, sur, always." But thc samo can be said, with less "Don't tell me suoh nonsense, excuse, for Northern prisons. The You had better be off quickly-court mortality statistics prove this beyond ?Qg *ith alantern, indeed! In- my question.-Baltimore Sun. young days I never used such a thing." "?~T"?"~T?"~!"!""J!,?"? "No, sur," replied the yokel, sid How to Treat Fainting People. ling off, "judging by yer missus, I _ shouldn't think yer did."-London Everyone should know how to treat Tna. _' m ? *-_ a fainting person. First of all, loosen _ In the United States the rainfall every tight thing from around the neck of the four sea90nB j8 aDOut equal' in and abdomen. That is, unfasten the each season. collar from around the neck, and if the ---- patient is a woman, cut her stay laoes, mm^m " if she wears stays. Allow the patient ?S& ?mt?9????9&f?B* all the fresh air possible. Do not pem.it person ?o crowd .round, .nd K?t?Z if in a crowded place carry the patient ble and grumble and roar" of his engine out or to an open window. A faint- are to Tm articulate speech, and a mise . ... nntr> m.that jum i?g person should always be laid flat MU^, 1 bje 0f sounds down on the baok, and it greatly aids iLaj^jqfe^N v would catch his recovery if the head can be put lower QSS?^^ V, a^d?cord Cwou?d than the body, so that blood goes BfffwMH BFa^ striae thc ear of steadily to thc brain. The main i orchestra" ?f ' *" cause of fainting is that the brain is ; KfiT^ He thinks more deprived of blood, and if tbe head is gSfflMBfisSlMV? ot his engine than laid low the brain gets its sharo again j BjjPfe^ ^h^he negtecU and so resumes its workings. Cold "ffitrrnfflWB I to notice symp water sprinkled over the face, smell- Bj i^^BffiPBH j^T8 pf*^^.are ing salts or burning feathers held to Bpl^^5Wl|lw| The fo?l^toague! the nose and fanning the face, all help fTBgd?5fflffi'fl Jfi the bitter taste, to restore consoiousnesB. Inau or- |T??B^4?^ url?u^S^at dinary caso the person may be allow- 11 Ifmfci^-**j ter eating are but ed to sit up when conscious, and after |lf\SlJ^^?^ symptoms of dys-, a little while resume her way. t^^^^^/// ^rao* disease m The custom of giving brandy or ^^f^*^ *~ * volving the atom other spirits to a person who has -1 $j^^n? fainted is a miscbevious one. Allow ?.frition. In time the heart, liver, lungs, tho patient to come to, then let her or other organs are involved and the slowly drink a cupful of cold water eDgrn?erc^ and no barm is done. But if brandy cures diseases of the stomach and organs is given the person many pass from g digestion and nation. "J"1"^ ? -A . . t .? * the blood and budds, up the body with, one fit to another or become ill from sound healthy flesh, the drink given. Medicines of any ?i used ten bottles of r>n pierce'?; Golden ..j j j m. m . Medical Discovery and severalvials of his 'Pleas Kind are not needed after fainting, ant Pellets'ayear ago this spring, and have had _1_m _._-? t? ?_L,i?.j L? . i_ no trouble with indigestion since." writes Mr. j Only oare must be exercised tO take W.T. Thompson, of Townsend, Broadwater Co.1 things quietly for the next two hours. 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