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u i uii i ui un i i uk uiPOSSESSEDumuivnmnuun.■»REMARKABLE BODY%Jacob Miller, 81 years of age, a veteran of the Civil war, hale and hearty as a man of half his years, is a guest of W. B- Shewman, 81^ Melbourne av-i enue. Miller wa§ a member of Company K, Ninth Indiana regiment, and enlisted in this city in 1861, ye was a member of the same company and regiment as John Ban la, who died Friday and whose funeral will be held I tomorrow.Miller had planned to return to his home in Naperville, 111., yesterday, but he learned of the death of his comrade and decided to remain until after the funeral.Miller is a living testimony to one of the most remarkable constitutions ever possessed by a human being. For the last fifty-one years he has carriedan open wound directly between the eyes which penetrates the skull for a distance of three-quarters of an inch. It is large enough to thrust the end of the little finger into it He received this wound in the battle of Chieka-mauga,, September 19, 1863. He tells of the incidents of the battle and his wound aedf it had occurred but yesterday.“I was in a semi-reclining position/' declared Miller yesterday afternoon, and i*ad raised up on my elbow to take aim when I was hit by a rebel bullet Captain McConnell, now Judge D. B. McConnell of this city, was standing just back of me. I have always thought that the rebel aimed at { Captain McConnell and aimed too low getting me. At least that Is 'what I have often told Judge McConnell/' continued the veteran.The most remarkable thing aboutthe injury was my being able to get tip, and tell those about me that, I was all right wheii I had' lost every sense.I wandered about and when I finally recovered my senses I was back of the rebel line, the Yanks having fallen back and the Tebela following .up.”A Union soldier and a rebel soldier met. Both were wounded1. Just before the rebel soldier died he asket me for a drink of cold wt er and, then:to ^et away and back tonot want me- to fall a prisoner to the rebels.”Miller%tated that time and again he was given up for dead and as oftentold by physicians and nurses that there was no possible chance to save his life. Because of this fact he warned the bullet which lodged Just overthe left eye fbr nine months and‘wben he was given'his furlong! he came towhere he was operatedupon..Vcomrades*during the \i^hayehad iu th^yeara; sincewarhave learn■ • ... .i... ..A..■ -*7*■■b *\\s -:4/¥trsaysiheVistcomlhg^ to a end£, of;__lt;#i!M*.
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Logansport Daily Tribune
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sun, Aug 17, 1919
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