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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), Nashville, June 1. (search)
ase of surviving apparently mortal wounds that has ever come under my observation is that of John W. Vance, company B, Seventy-second regiment of Indiana mounted infantry, commanded by Colonel Millerds under the circumstances, seems almost beyond conception. While the regiment to which young Vance belonged was scouting near Taylorsville, Tennessee, he and a companion were taken prisoners. Due head of each as they were pinioned to the trees. His companion was at once despatched; but as Vance was unfastened he fell forward on his face, and another of the rebel band, named Cartwright, fired the fourth shot through the victim's head. Vance assures me that he did not at any time lose his consciousness. He heard all they said and knew all they did. Here he lay twenty-six hours, durie of combativeness, and escaped through his left eye, completely des. troying it. And yet John W. Vance lives and looks well and hearty. He is an intelligent, fine-looking young man, just arrived