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REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE.# 'V mmWur History of an Illinois VeteranVV ho urrit-a a Mullet inIlia Ilraiu.'lt;IiIJACOB MILLER.never -have included one for Jacob Miller had it not been for the testi-mony of his two comrades who were with him. for the reason that he was ; sure that he had left Miller dead on the field on Chickamauga. Indeed,-after the battle, Miller was reported dead by his captain, and his name was printed in the newspapers among the killed.Miller's friends in Indiana did not know he was alive until two months later. The army surgeons feeling sure that Miller would die, told him they would not give him any more pain by probing for the bullet, so it was left in the wound until he went home. Nine months after he was wounded he arrived home. Two sur-n 1geons operated on him and succeeded in removing about one-third of the musket ball. Seventeen years after he was shot he was cleaning his wounds one day when a piece of lead ; dropped into the water.Comrade Miller has 110 memory for names, but very vividly recalls all the little details of how he was shot and how he was left for dead, and finally crawled away from among the dead and dying.* oI , % -Comrade Jacob Miller, of Braid-wood, ill., had a most remarkable experience during his service with company K, Ninth Indiana, and still carries a piece of confederate lead in brain, says the National Tribune. Comrade Miller enlisted at Logan-sport, Ind., in 1861. His first captainwas \Y. i*. La Salle, and his regiment was commanded by Robert Milrov.At the battle of Chiekamauga, September 19, 1803, while in the act ofaiming, Comrade Miller was struck by a musket ball, which penetrated the forehead, and he fell backward and was left for dead. Comrade Miller recollects hearing his captain say:“It’s 110 use to remove poor Miller, for he is dead.”By the shot one of his eves was knocked out of its socket, and the other was moon so swollen that he could see nothing. But he retained consciousness, and crawled forth from among the dead, after his comrades had fallen back, and madeThe next morning, having a great dread of being taken prisoner, he started out tottanooga on foot. He could onlv see a few feetead of him by holding open the lidsof the swollen eve.Comrade Miller walked as far as hecould and then lav down bv the road-side. An ambulance driver, findinghim s’ill breathing, picked hhn upand put him in *he ambulance in thespace which had been occupied by acomrade who had just died. In thiswav Miller finally reached C'hatta-* •'nooga on .wepteml»er 21, ami there fell in with two members of his own company, and with them crossed the rherin the evening and stayed all night with the company teamster.At noon the next day he had hsswound dressed for the first time. Then he drew rations and. with his comrades, started across the moun-ep«rt. where they arrived September 23. From Bridgeport he r«Kle to Nashville, lying on his back in a box car. In Nashville his wound received its second dressing.Miller’s two comrades sent a ’etter to their captain asking for descriptive lists for themselves and for Miller, so that they couldpay. The captain answered, inclosing the lists, but added that he would
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